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N31 1999 Virtues of Authenticity Virtues of Authenticity ESSAYS ON PLATO AND SOCRATES Alexander Nehamas PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY Copyright © 1999 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, Chichester, West Sussex All Rights Reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Nehamas, Alexander, 1946- Virtues of authenticity : essays on Plato and Socrates / Alexander Nehamas. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. ISBN 0-691-00177-4 (alk. paper). — ISBN 0-691-00178-2 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Plato. 2. Socrates. I. Title. B395.N44 1998 184—dc21 98-7109 CIP This book has been composed in Galhard Princeton University Press books are printed on acid-free paper and meet the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources http://pup.princeton.edu Printed in the United States of America 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 In memory of Gregory Vlastos CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix List of Abbreviations xiii Introduction xv I. Socrates: Questions of Goodness and Method One Meno’s Paradox and Socrates as a Teacher 3 Two Socratic Intellectualism 27 Three What Did Socrates Teach and to Whom Did He Teach It? 59 Four Voices of Silence: On Gregory Vlastos’s Socrates 83 Five Eristic, Antilogic, Sophistic, Dialectic: Plato’s Demarcation of Philosophy from Sophistry 108 II. Plato: Questions of Metaphysics and Epistemology Six On Parmenides’ Three Ways of Inquiry 125 Seven Plato on the Imperfection of the Sensible World 138 Eight Confusing Universals and Particulars in Plato’s Early Dialogues 159 Nine Self-Predication and Plato’s Theory of Forms 176 Ten ^ Participation and Predication in Plato’s Later Thought 196 Eleven Episteme and Logos in Plato’s Later Thought 224 viii CONTENTS III. Plato: Questions of Beauty and the Arts Twelve Plato on Imitation and Poetry in Republic X 251 Thirteen Plato and the Mass Media 279 IV Plato: Individual Works Fourteen The Symposium 303 Fifteen The Republic 316 Sixteen The Phaedrus 329 Index of Passages Cited 359 General Index 365
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