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Ion, Hippias Minor, Laches, Protagoras.
Title:
Ion, Hippias Minor, Laches, Protagoras.
Author:
Plato.
ISBN:
9780300138382
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (249 pages)
Series:
Dialogues of Plato ; v.3

Dialogues of Plato
Contents:
CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- THE ION -- Comment -- Introduction -- Art Implies Knowledge of Who Speaks Well and Badly about the Same Subjects: Ion Does Not Possess an Art -- Poetry and Divine Possession: Rhapsodes as Messengers of Messengers -- Arts Defined by Their Objects: Ion Does Not Possess an Art -- Translation -- THE HIPPIAS MINOR -- Comment -- Introduction -- The Same Man Is Both True and False -- Interlude: Dialectic and Literature -- Only the Good Man Errs Voluntarily -- Translation -- THE LACHES -- Comment -- Introduction -- Nicias and Laches Disagree about Fighting in Armor -- Fighting in Armor and Care of the Soul -- What Is Courage? -- Laches' First Definition: Courage Is Standing to Your Post -- Laches' Second Definition: Courage Is Perseverance of Soul -- Nicias's Definition: Courage Is a Kind of Wisdom or Knowledge of What to Fear and What to Be Confident About -- Courage and Fearlessness -- Courage as a Part of Virtue -- Conclusion -- Translation -- THE PROTAGORAS -- Comment -- Dramatic Introduction -- Narrative Introduction -- Sophistry and the Soul -- A Foregathering of Sophists -- Can Virtue Be Taught? -- The Speech of Protagoras -- The Unity of Virtue -- The Unity of Justice and Holiness -- The Unity of Temperance and Wisdom -- The Unity of Justice and Temperance -- Interlude: Questions and Speeches -- The Poem of Simonides -- Protagoras Questions Socrates -- The Speech of Socrates -- Interlude -- The Unity of Virtue Revisited -- The Unity of Wisdom and Courage -- "Conceptual Analysis" -- That Virtue Is Knowledge -- The Hedonic Equation -- Living Well -- Ancient Hedonism -- Utilitarianism -- The Authority of Knowledge -- Reply to the Many -- The Hedonistic Calculus -- The Nautical Almanac -- The Art of Measurement -- The Art Analogy -- The "Naturalistic Fallacy" -- Psychiatric Hedonism: Freud -- Hippias and Prodicus Agree.

No One Voluntarily Chooses Evils -- Socratic Intellectualism -- The Unity of Courage and Wisdom -- "Plato's Moral Theory" -- Conclusion -- Translation -- INDEX.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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