Trials of reason
Subtitle: Plato and the crafting of philosophy
By: David Wolfsdorf
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780195327328
Subjects: Plato; Philosophy, Ancient
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-275) and indexes
Table of contents: title: Interpretation; title: Introduction; title: Interpreting Plato; title: The political culture of Plato's early dialogues; title: Dialogue; title: Character and history; title: The mouthpiece principle; title: Forms of evidence; title: Desire; title: Socrates and eros; title: The subjectivist conception of desire; title: Instrumental and terminal desire; title: Rational and irrational desires; title: Desire in the critique of Akrasia; title: Interpreting Lysis; title: The deficiency conception of desire; title: Inauthentic friendship; title: Platonic desire; title: Antiphilosophical desires; title: Knowledge; title: Excellence as wisdom; title: The epistemic unity of excellence; title: Dunamis and technê; title: Goodness and form; title: The epistemological priority of definitional knowledge; title: Ordinary ethical knowledge; title: Method; title: The Socratic fallacy; title: Socrates' pursuit of definitions; title: Hupothesis; title: Two postulates; title: The geometrical illustration; title: Geometrical analysis; title: The method of reasoning from a postulate; title: Elenchus and hupothesis; title: Knowledge and aitia; title: F-conditions; title: Cognitive security; title: Aporia; title: Forms of aporia; title: Dramatic aporia; title: The example of Charmides; title: Charmides as autobiography; title: The politics of Sôphrosunê; title: Critias' Philotimia; title: Self-knowledge and the knowledge of knowledge; title: Knowledge of knowledge and knowledge of the good; title: Philosophy and the polis