Philosophy in Dialogue : Plato's Many Devices

MEDICINE, PHILOSOPHY, AND SOCRATES’ PROPOSALS

TO GLAUCON ABOUT Gumnastikhv IN REPUBLIC 403C–412B

Ethics Without Politics in the Republic,” chap. 4 of Platonic Ethics, Old and New
(Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999), 72– 95; see also 1– 7.

87. On book 10, see notes 56 and 58. For partial readings of the Repub-
    lic compatible with this reading, see Nalin Ranasinghe, “Glaucon’s Republic,”
    chap. 1 of Soul of Socrates. See also Rutherford, Art of Plato, 218 – 27; and Clay,
    “Reading the Republic,” 24– 33.


88. A medical model of Socratic (and Platonic) practice need not imply
    that Socratic or Platonic arguments found in either diagnostic or therapeutic
    segments of dialogue are unimportant. It need only emphasize that all four of
    the segments of the Divided Line, including the segments corresponding to
    nou'~ and to pivsti~ and eijkasiva, represent aspects of human rationality. See
    notes 58 and 59.


89. See Frede, “Plato’s Arguments and the Dialogue Form,” 216– 19.