Philosophy in a time of splendor: Socrates in Periclean Athens before the war, c. 433 -- Protagoras : Socrates and the Greek enlightenment -- First words -- The frame conversation -- Socrates with a young Athenian -- Socrates in hades -- Protagoras introduces himself -- Socrates' challenge and invitation : can the political art be taught? -- Protagoras's display speech : why the political art is teachable -- Socrates' display speech, part I : the wise must teach that virtue is unitary -- Socrates stages a crisis -- Socrates' display sppech, part II : a wiser stance toward the wise Alcibiades presides -- Socrates' display speech, part III : a wiser stance toward the many -- The final tribunal ; courage and wisdom -- Socrates the victor -- Last words -- Socrates' politics for philosophy in 433 -- Note on the dramatic date of Protagoras and Alcibiades I -- Philosophy in a time of crisis : Socrates' return to war-ravaged, plague-ravaged Athens, late spring 429 -- Charmides : Socrates' philosophy and its transmission -- First words -- Socrates' intentions -- The spectacle of Charmides' entrance -- Critias scripts a play but Socrates takes it over -- Stripping Charmides' soul -- What Critias took from Socrates and what that riddler had in mind -- Should each of the beings become clearly apparent just as it is? -- The final definition of sôphrosunê, Socrates' definition -- The possibility of Socrates' sôphrosunê -- The benefit of Socrates' sôphrosunê -- Socrates judges the inquiry -- Last words -- Who might the auditor of Plato's Charmides be? -- Note on the dramatic date of Charmides -- The Republic: the birth of Platonism -- Socrates' great politics -- The world to which Socrates goes down -- First words -- The compelled and the voluntary -- Learning from Cephalus -- Polemarchus and Socratic justice -- Gentling Thrasymachus -- The state of the young in Athens -- Socrates' new beginning -- New gods -- New philosophers -- New justice in a new soul -- Compulsion and another beginning -- The center of the Republic: the philosopher ruler -- Glaucon, ally of the philosopher's rule -- Platonism: philosophy's political defense and introduction to philosophy -- Public speakers for philosophy -- Images of the greatest study: sun, line, cave -- The last act of the returned Odysseus -- Love and reverence for Homer -- Homer's deed -- Homer's children -- Rewards and prizes for Socrates' children -- Replacing Homer's Hades -- Last words -- Note on the dramatic date of the Republic.
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