Philosophy in Dialogue : Plato's Many Devices

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INDEX

Socrates as model for, 96 –100, 145
Socrates’ desire for, 140–41, 143
self-refl ection in Philebus and Parmenides,
153 –54, 159
senses, 6, 213, 214, 216
settings of dialogues, xvii
Seventh Letter, xviii
shame, 54, 60, 74n38, 94, 96, 133
ship of state image, 3
“showing from” (apodeixis), 124 –26,
128n20
Simmias, 38n32, 43, 217–18
Simonides’ poem, 89
skepticism, xxxiin26
Socrates
admissions of ignorance, xiii, 5, 17,
131–32, 137–38, 142, 149n24
aporia of, 99
appearance of, 134, 140, 213
caricature of, in Theaetetus, xxviii,
133, 145, 14 6n3, 14 8n11
as gadfl y, in Apology, 136
as image-maker, 9–11
as midwife, xxvii, xxxvii, 131–38,
147n10
misleading by, 85, 87
as narrator, xxvi, 83–92, 103, 106n18
as physician, 41, 46, 210n40
refusal of responsibility for actions of
his associates, 131–32
as storyteller, 218
see also Socrates as character
Socrates as character
emotional responses, xxvi, 95–96,
100 –101
as model for self-discovery, xxvi, 82,
96 –100, 145
in narrated dialogues, 97
and psychic maieutics, 131, 148n10
in Socratic conversations, xiii–xiv
Socrates’ daimonion, 131–32, 138
Socrates’ trial and death
and images of Socrates, 133
and navigation metaphor, 200–201
in Phaedo, 210n38
and psychic maieutics, 131, 133–34,
136
in Theaetetus, 14 8n15
see also Apology of Socrates (dialogue);
Phaedrus (d ia log ue)


Socratic conversations as genre, xix,
xxxin20
Socratic irony
in Euthydemus, 91
and laughter, 94, 95
medical model, 46, 50, 72n29, 75n45
in Meno, 121
in Republic, 177
Socrates as character, xiii–xiv,
xxxn10, 97, 99
vs. Platonic irony, 103, 110n53
Sophist (d ia log ue)
antilogy in, 31, 32, 38n32
image of Socrates in, 132
images in, 121, 223–25
training, 75n46
Sophists, the, 26, 35n5, 193, 194–96
Sparta in Thucydides, 23
spirit/spiritedness (thumos), training of,
50, 59, 61, 67, 75n47
Statesman (dialogue), 75n46, 132, 133
style in Philebus, 154
sun, simile of, xxiv, 10, 86, 226–27, 229
sunousia, 138, 151n41
Symposium (d ia log ue)
antilogy in, 31–32, 33
as drama, xii
Homeric allusions in, 114, 115–17
images in, 220–21, 230–31
medical model, 47
method in, xxviii, 176 –83
and poverty of argument, 211n54,
211n61
Socrates as character, xiv, xxxn12,
99

techne ̄ (art, craft). See art and craft
(techne ̄)
temperance (sophrosune ̄), 27–28, 38n30
tension
in Philebus, 159–60, 162
in Platonic dialogue, 32–33
in Theaetetus, 131, 136, 140
in Thucydides, 16, 18–19, 25, 26, 30
Theaetetus, 32, 75n46, 135, 145,
150n34
Theaetetus (d ia log ue)
and confl icting appearances, xxvii
in dialogical bondage, 139–40, 142
elenchus in, 28
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