Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. 1. Phaedo: The First Stage of Socrates’ Philosophic Education
5. Prologue: Heroic Socrates as the New Ideal 7
6. 1. First Words 10
7. 2. A New Theseus to Slay the Real Minotaur 14
8. 3. A New Herakles to Cut Off and Bury the Immortal Head of Hydra 18
9. 4. A New Odysseus to Teach the Safe Way to Understand Cause 31
10. 5. Odyssean Socrates’ Report on His Second Sailing in the Phaedo Measured by the Parmenides 52
11. 6. Odyssean Socrates Ends His Life of Argument 71
12. 7. Socrates’ Last Words: Gratitude for a Healing 82
13. 2. Parmenides: The Second Stage of Socrates’ Philosophic Education
14. Prologue: A Socrates for the Philosophically Driven 89
15. 1. First Words 91
16. 2. At Pythodorus’s House during the Great Panathenaia 95
17. 3. Socrates and Zeno: How to Read a Philosophic Writing 99
18. 4. Socrates’ Solution to What Parmenides and Zeno Made to Seem beyond Us 103
19. 5. Parmenides the Guide 108
20. 6. What Is This Gymnastic? 120
21. 7. Guiding Socrates 124
22. 8. Last Words 146
23. 9. The Socratic Turn 148
24. 3. The Symposium: The Final Stage of Socrates’ Philosophic Education
25. Prologue: Socrates’ Ontological Psychology 152
26. 1. First Words 157
27. 2. Socrates Beautifies Himself for Agathon 161
28. 3. Diotima’s Myth Guides Socrates to the Third Stage of His Philosophic Education 172
29. 4. Diotima’s Logos Guides Socrates to the Third Stage of His Philosophic Education 182
30. 5. Diotima Teaches Socrates What to Teach 191
31. 6. Alcibiades Arrives 203
32. 7. Last Words 206
33. Note on the Dramatic Date of the Frame of the Symposium 209
34. Conclusion: Plato in a Nietzschean History of Philosophy 221
35. Works Cited 227
36. Index 233