Philosophy in Dialogue : Plato's Many Devices

INDEX

methodos, 112
narration of, 104n3, 189n6
psychic maieutics in, 130–38
reasoning in, 27
Theodorus, 121, 141, 149n21, 150n30,
150n31, 150n32
Theseus, image of, xvii, 194, 200–201
thought-experiments, 13
Thrasymachus, 66 –68, 74n41, 86, 94
Thucydides, 16–26
audience for, 28
and medicine, xxv–xxvi, 62–63
parallels with Plato, 77n65, 78n65
role of speeches in, xxiv
Timaeus (dialogue), 225–26
Tiresias, imagery of, 119–20
truth (saphos) in medical model, 66, 67
“two going together” imagery in Homer,
114–17, 206

unlimited, the. See limited and unlim-

ited, the (peras/apeiron)

virtue (arete ̄)

and gymnastik, 51

and images, 119–20, 227, 231–32

and limits, 74n41

medical model, 45–48, 53–56, 61, 67,

74n42

and reason, 109n40

teachability of, 38n32, 196, 206

vividness in Thucydides, 16–17, 29

weaver, image of, 204–5, 218

wisdom as Socratic pursuit, xiii

Xenophon, xx, xxxin20, 48, 72n27

Zeno, 39n32, 155–57, 161, 163