Philosophy in Dialogue : Plato's Many Devices

INDEX

purpose of writings, xvi
unresolved diffi culties in, xiv–xv
Platonic irony
historical irony, 79n79
in Phaedrus, 171n3 6
in Republic, 185
in Symposium, 175, 179, 19 0 n14
vs. Socratic irony, 103, 110n53
Platonic metaphysics, 213, 232–33
play
and distancing strategy, 175
in Republic, 4, 12, 14n4, 183
in Symposium, 177, 181– 83
pleasure, 158–61, 164–66, 169n5
plurality/unity dialectic, 156, 161–62.
See also limited and unlimited, the
(peras/apeiron)
poetry
and emotion, 100–102
and imitation, 5, 229
in Phaedrus, 124–25, 129n24, 174
and philosophy, x, xxiii, 86, 113–17
in Republic, 76n56, 117, 229, 233
in training of mind, 61
underlying sense, 117–22
see also Homer
Polemarchus, 66, 86, 117, 183–86
Polus, 30
Potidaean revolt in Thuchydides, 22
poverty of argument, 206–7, 211n54
Prodicus, 89, 100, 102
Protagoras
on dialectic, 16
and emotional responses, 96
erotic dimensions, 93
orphaned logoi of, 135, 144, 149n21
and self-knowledge, 141
as teacher, 35n5, 209n10
Protagoras (d ia log ue)
dialectic in, 193–96, 206
emotion expressed in, 94, 100, 102
Homeric allusions in, 114–15
method in, xxviii–xxix
narrative frame, 88–90, 89, 108n35
Socrates as character, 97, 98
virtue in, 151n41
Protarchus
and language, 171n35
name of, 171n27

in Philebus, 158–60, 162, 163–66

and repetition, 171n33

psuche ̄ in medical model, 43, 49, 50, 53,

57, 66 –67, 75n45

psychagogia (leading souls), 42–43, 62,

65

Pythagoreanism, 83, 172n39. See also

opposites, theory of

question-and-answer method

in Phaedo, 203

in Philebus, 167

in Platonic dialogue, 64

used against Protagoras, 195

vs. ot her met hods, 111

rational self-examination, 92, 108n40

reader. See audience

reading practices of ancient texts, 82–83

reason, 219, 232

recollection. See anamnesis

(recollection)

refl ection and psychic maieutics, 137–38

refl exivity, 153

refutation. See elenchus (refutation)

repetition as method

and limits, 170n23

in Parmenides, 157

in Philebus, 155, 159, 162–63, 164,

165 – 67

reported dialogues. See narrated

dialogues

Republic (d ia log ue)

emotional responses in, 94, 95, 102

erotic dimensions, 93

genre of, x

images in, 3–14, 69n3, 126, 197,

226–30

medical model in, xxv, 45, 48–49,

48–68

methods in, xxviii, 183–88

narrative frame, 86–87, 107n23

poetry in, 76n56, 117, 229, 233

question-and-answer in, 111

Socrates as character, 97, 99

rhetoric and medical model, 42–43

self-knowledge

and medical model, 48–49