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This study reconsiders Plato's "Socratic" dialogues-Charmides, Laches, Lysis, Euthydemus, Gorgias, and Meno-as parts of an integrated curriculum. By privileging reading order over order of composition, a Platonic pedagogy teaching that the Idea of the Good is a greater object of philosophical concern than what benefits the self is spotlighted.
List of contents
Acknowledgements
Preface: Ascent to the Good
Table of Abbreviations
Introduction: Aristotle and Plato
Chapter 1: Lysis-Euthydemus: Mental Gymnastic and é é in Symposium's Wake
� The Good and the Beautiful in Plato's Symposium
� Systematic Socratism
� Plato's Deliberate Use of Fallacy in Lysis-Euthydemus
� The Play of Character and the Argument of the Action
Chapter 2: Laches and Charmides: Fighting for Athens
� Between Euthydemus and Meno
� Socratism and the Knowledge of Good and Bad
� The Return to Athens in Laches and Charmides
Chapter 3: Plato and Gorgias: The Touchstone of Socrates
� From Gorgias to Republic
� Plato's Confession
�. Gorgias and the Shorter Way
�. Protagoras Revisited
�. Gorgias and the Longer Way
Chapter 4. Theages and Meno: Socratic Paradoxes
�. Divine Inspiration and its Discontents
�. "Meno the Thessalian" and the Socratic Paradox Revisited
�. Hypotheses and Images in Meno: Introducing the Divided Line
Chapter 5. Cleitophon and Republic
�. Looking Forward: Answering Cleitophon's Question (408e1-2)
�. Looking Back: Socrates as Obstacle to Socratism (410e7-8)
About the author
By William H. F. Altman
Summary
This study reconsiders Plato’s “Socratic” dialogues—Charmides, Laches, Lysis, Euthydemus, Gorgias, and Meno—as parts of an integrated curriculum. By privileging reading order over order of composition, a Platonic pedagogy teaching that the Idea of the Good is a greater object of philosophical concern than what benefits the self is spotlighted.
