Introduction PART ONE Philosophy in a Time of Splendor: Socrates in Periclean Athens before the War, c. 433 CHAPTER 1. Protagoras: Socrates and the Greek Enlightenment Prologue: Great Protagoras 1. First Words 2. The Frame Conversation 3. Socrates with a Young Athenian 4. Socrates in Hades 5. Protagoras Introduces Himself 6.
Socrates' Challenge and Invitation: Can the Political Art Be Taught? 7. Protagoras's Display Speech: Why the Political Art Is Teachable 8. Socrates' Display Speech, Part I: The Wise Must Teach That Virtue Is Unitary 9. Socrates Stages a Crisis 10. Socrates' Display Speech, Part II: A Wiser Stance toward the Wise 11. Alcibiades Presides 12. Socrates' Display Speech, Part III: A Wiser Stance toward the Many 13. The Final Tribunal: Courage and Wisdom 14.
Socrates the Victor 15. Last Words 16. Socrates' Politics for Philosophy in 433 Note on the Dramatic Date of Protagoras and Alcibiades I PART TWO Philosophy in a Time of Crisis: Socrates' Return to War-Ravaged, Plague-Ravaged Athens, Late Spring 429 CHAPTER 2. Charmides: Socrates' Philosophy and Its Transmission Prologue: The Return of Socrates 1. First Words 2. Socrates' Intentions 3. The Spectacle of Charmides' Entrance 4. Critias Scripts a Play but Socrates Takes It Over 5.
Stripping Charmides' Soul 6. What Critias Took from Socrates and What That Riddler Had in Mind 7. Should Each of the Beings Become Clearly Apparent Just As It Is? 8. The Final Definition of Sôphrosunê, Socrates' Definition 9. The Possibility of Socrates' Sôphrosunê 10. The Benefit of Socrates' Sôphrosunê 11. Socrates Judges the Inquiry 12. Last Words 13.
Who Might the Auditor of Plato's Charmides Be? Note on the Dramatic Date of Charmides CHAPTER 3. The Republic: The Birth of Platonism Prologue: Socrates' Great Politics One: The World to Which Socrates Goes Down 1. First Words 2. The Compelled and the Voluntary 3. Learning from Cephalus 4. Polemarchus and Socratic Justice 5. Gentling Thrasymachus 6. The State of the Young in Athens Two: Socrates' New Beginning 7.
New Gods 8. New Philosophers 9. New Justice in a New Soul 10. Compulsion and Another Beginning 11. The Center of the Republic: The Philosopher Ruler 12. Glaucon, Ally of the Philosopher's Rule 13. Platonism: Philosophy's Political Defense and Introduction to Philosophy 14. Public Speakers for Philosophy 15.
Images of the Greatest Study: Sun, Line, Cave Three: The Last Act of the Returned Odysseus 16. Love and Reverence for Homer 17. Homer's Deed 18. Homer's Children 19. Rewards and Prizes for Socrates' Children 20. Replacing Homer's Hades 21. Last Words Note on the Dramatic Date of the Republic Epilogue Works Cited Index.