Philosophy in Dialogue : Plato's Many Devices

INDEX

laughter, 94–95, 175, 185–86
Laws (dialogue), 64, 72n28, 74n39
limited and unlimited, the (peras/
apeiron)
and classifi cation, 163, 167
and the Good, 164
and images, 219–21, 225–26, 230,
232, 233
in Parmenides, 157
in Philebus, xxvii, 155, 160, 170n23,
172n3 9
and philosophy, 217–18
literature in medical model, 61
logos, orphaned, 135, 144, 145, 149n21
logos (d iscour se)
defi nitions, 69n6
and drama, xii
as genre, xxii
haters of. See misology (hatred of
arguments)
and images, 199, 200–203, 205, 207
medical model, 43–44, 62
as method, xxvii, 112
and opposed accounts, 16, 27–28,
31, 33
in Parmenides, 158, 167
in Philebus, 152, 162–63, 166
and self-examination, 84
in Sophist, 121–22
as transformational, xxxiin27
as tyrant, 142
lover-beloved relationship, 92–93,
105n14, 109n48
lyre, image of, 204, 218
Lysis (d ia log ue)
aporia in, xviii
emotion expressed in, 94, 96,
100 –102, 109n48
erotic dimensions, 92–93
narrative style, 84–86, 88, 93, 109n48
Socrates as character, 96, 98

madness, erotic, 180
maieutics (midwifery)
as art, 150n26
and knowledge, 138–43, 145
Socratic method as, xxvii, 131–38,
14 6n2 , 147n10, 14 8n16
mathematics. See geometry
(mathematics)

medical model

implications of, 45–48

in Platonic dialogue, 61–68

in Republic, 45, 48–68

in Theaetetus, xxv–xxvi

Meletus, xxxin16

Menexenus (dialogue), xiv, 96, 192n33

Meno and his slave, 231–32

Meno (dialogue), 16, 38n32, 119–20,

149n25

metaphilosophical inquiry, 175–76

metaphors and “open” method, 193

method (methodos)

dialectic as, 153, 208

dialogue as, 193–211

in Protagoras, 194 –96

in Republic, 12, 183–88

in Symposium, xxvii, 176–83

use of term, xix–xxi, 111–12

middle path/way, 154, 157–58, 160, 164,

220

midwifery vs. maieutics, 136–37. See also

maieutics (midwifery)

mime ̄sis. See imitation (mime ̄si s)

Minos, 21, 200

Minotaur, 194, 200

misology (hatred of arguments), 55, 61,

63, 205, 218

mixture (summisis)

in Philebus, 154, 164 – 65, 167– 68

in Sophist, 22 4–25

models of behavior (paradiegmata)

imitation of, 103, 109n40, 227–28

Socrates as, xxvi, 82, 96 –100, 145

music (mousike ̄)

censorship of, 73n35

and eros, 192n36

in Republic, 186 – 87

in training the soul, 57–59, 59–60,

75n45, 75n48

myths, use of by Socrates, 113–26

narrated dialogues, xii, 82, 84–92. See

also Charmides (dialogue); Euthyde-

mus (dialogue); Lysis (dialogue);

Protagoras (dialogue); Republic (d ia-

logue); Symposium (d ia log ue)

narrative frame, xii, 82–84, 86, 91,

107n23, 108n35

narrative markers, 83, 105n10, 105n11