Socrates - Arguments of the Philosophers [Paperback]

First Published in 1999. The purpose of this series is to provide a contemporary assessment and history of the entire course of philosophical thought. Each book constitutes a detailed, critical introduction to the work of a philosopher of major influence and significance. This is a philosophical study of Platos Socratesthe man and his talks, his philosophical method, his questions, his arguments, and his beliefs about what is good and right.Part One THE PHILOSOPHER AND THE CITIZEN I Introduction to Platos Socrates II Socrates and the Laws of Athens 1 Socrates arguments in the Crito that he ought not to escape from jail 2 Socrates views in the Apology about the citizen, his city, and its laws 3 Is there any inconsistency between the Apology and the Crito? Part Two SOCRATIC METHOD III Socratic Questions and Assumptions 1 A sample of Socrates questions 2 Questions about Socratic questions 3 The pragmatics of Socrates questionings 4 The syntactics of Socrates questions 5 The semantics of Socrates questions IV Socratic Definitions 1 A list of all the definitions in the Socratic Dialogues 2 The syntax and forms of Socratic definitions 3 The semantics of Socratic definitions 4 The pragmatics of Socratic definitions 5 Criteria for adequate Socratic definitions V Socratic Arguments 1 Variety of arguments 2 Method of analyzing arguments 3 Inductive analogies: from the arts-crafts-sciences to ethics 4 Inductive generalizations: from the arts-crafts-sciences to ethics 5 Deductive arguments: two indirect arguments from the Lysis 6 Deductive arguments: a direct argument from the Lysis 7 Deductive arguments: a direct argument from the Protagoras Part Three SOCRATIC ETHICS VI Virtue and Knowledge I: The Socratic Paradoxes 1 The distinction between the prudential and the moral paradox 2 The prudential paradox 3 The moral paradox VII Virtue and Knowledge II: An Argument against Explanations of Weakness 1 The context and the strategy 2 The argument 3 Application of the argumelS&