2. Socrates, the Academics, and the Good Life

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Abbreviations xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Augustine and the Academics 9
7. Part I. Discrediting Academic Skepticism as a Philosophical Practice
8. 2. Socrates, the Academics, and the Good Life 33
9. 3. Happiness, Wisdom, and the Insufficiency of Inquiry 49
10. 4. The Inaction Objection 75
11. 5. Inquiry and Belief on Authority 95
12. 6. The Error of the Academics 120
13. Afterword to Part I 139
14. Part II. Vindicating the Possibility of Knowledge
15. 7. The Academic Denial of the Possibility of Knowledge 145
16. 8. The Apprehensible Truths of Philosophy 165
17. 9. Platonism and the Apprehensible Truths of Philosophy 195
18. 10. Defense of the Senses 214
19. 11. First-Person Truths 228
20. Afterword to Part II 253
21. Bibliography 257
22. Index 265