TY - BOOK AU - Vasiliou, Iakovos AU - Vasiliou,Iakovos TI - Aiming at Virtue in Plato SN - 9780521367943 U1 - N58 PY - 2011/// CY - New York PB - Cambridge University N1 - includes index and biblioraphy; 1 Aiming and determining I 2 Virtue, aims, and eudaimonia 4 3 Disputes about virtue and its supremacy 6 4 Socrates and Plato on virtuous actions and virtuous characters:A standard account 10 5 A brief overview of some central principles 15 6 A note on reading Plato (i): The significance of the dialogue form 18 7 A note on reading Plato (n): Doctrines and developmentalism 20 1 Socrates and the supremacy of virtue 22 1.1 Introduction 22 1.2 The supremacy of virtue in the Apology 24 1.3 Socrates and moral knowledge 27 1.4 SV and the priority of definition 36 1.5 Socrates` criticism of his fellow Athenians 39 1.6 Socratic incontinence 42 2 Determining virtue in the here and now: Socrates in the Apology and Crito 46 2.1 Ill-fitting remarks in the Apology 48 2.2 The role of Socrates` divine sign and his decision to avoid public life 51 2.3 Crito`s appeal 56 2.4 Socrates` response 63 2.5 SV in the Crito 71 2.6 The Laws` starting assumptions 74 2.7 The arguments of the Laws 77 3 The supremacy of virtue in the Gorgias 91 3.1 The Gorgias and SV 91 3.2 Socrates and rhetoric in the Gorgias 93 3.3 Gorgias, Socrates, and SV 98 3.4 Polus and SV 3.5 Callicles and his conception of justice 3.6 Callicles` protreptic 3.7 Callicles` hedonism 3.8 Socrates as rhetor Trying (and failing) to determine what virtue is 4.1 Two commonalities 4.2 The dialogues of definition and the "What is F?" question 4.3 Aiming and determining in the Euthyphro 4.4 Aiming and determining in the Protagoras and Euthydemus Socrates and Thrasymachus: Republic i 5.1 Socrates, Cephalus, and Polemarchus 5.2 Thrasymachus` initial account of justice 5.3 Thrasymachus` "definitions" of justice 5.4 Cleitophon`s recommendation 5.5 Aiming and determining in the "Thrasymachus episode" 5.6 Socrates` defense of SV in Republic I The benefits of injustice 6.1 Defining justice and the project of the Republic 6.2 The classification of goods 6.3 Understanding Glaucon`s example 6.4 The origin of justice according to the many 6.5 The benefits of injustice Early education and non-philosophers in the Republic 7.1 Overview 7.2 The significance of early education 7.3 A tension in the account of early education 7.4 Philosophers and non-philosophers in the Republic Aiming at virtue and determining what it is 8.1 Just actions and the just soul in Republic 4 8.2 Just persons 8.3 The virtue of non-philosophers 8.4 The promise of an answer to determining questions 8.5 The role and significance of Books 8 and 9 ER -