Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Religion, Socrates, and the Platonic Socrates -- 2. Scrutinizing Character, Scrutinizing Moral Propositions -- 3. The Discovery of Separate Form -- 4. Forms and Erotic Passion -- 5. Ethics, Psychology, and Metaphysics in the Phaedo -- 6. The Republic: The Finished Theory of Forms? -- 7. Reconstructions: From Parmenides to Philebus -- 8. Gods, God, and Goodness -- 9. Ethics and Metaphysics: Then and Now -- Appendix A: Republic Book Five: Some Background to Eugenic Theory -- Appendix B: Literature and Platonic Transcendentalism -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.