Socrates (19 page)

L

Leon of Salamis 12

Lowrie, W. 108 n.12

Lycon 12

Lysias 19

Lysicles 31

M

Marsilio Ficino 89

Marsyas 22

Meletus 12, 18, 19, 23, 48

Meno 58

mimes 26

Montaigne, M. de 89

Muhammad 90

Myrto 5

N

nature and convention 74–5

Nietzsche, F. 15, 97–104

O

Odysseus 52

Olsen, R. 93

P

Panaetius 86

Parmenides 37

Pausanias 34

Peloponnesian War 5

Pericles 27, 31

Phaedo 23, 39

Phaedrus 16, 34

Phainarete 4

Philodemus 84

Pitthos (district of Athens) 12

Plato 1–2, 9–10, 12, 13, 14–15, 16–23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37–44, 45–76, 77, 78, 85, 87, 88, 90, 102, 103, 105

political craft 47, 51, 76

Polus 50, 65

Polycrates 27, 28

Potidaea 5, 10, 18, 41

Prodicus 33, 72, 73, 77, 81

Protagoras 7, 8, 40, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77

Pyrrho/Pyrrhonians 84

R

Recollection, theory of 40, 42, 52

reincarnation 42, 52

religion 72, 74;
see also
Socrates rhetoric 51, 73

Rousseau, J.-J. 89

S

Schopenhauer, A. 102

Seneca 84

Seven Sages (Seven Pillars of Wisdom) 72, 90

Shakespeare, W. 15

Smith, N. D. 107 n.8

Socrates:
passim

appearance 10

definitions 33, 36–7, 45, 52–61

divine sign 18, 19, 32, 39, 87, 89, 91

elenchus 20, 23, 45, 49–51, 54

ethics 45–6, 61–71

inductive arguments 31, 33, 36–7

portrayal in comedy 5–9, 25–6

religion 21–4

‘Socratic conversations’ 2, 26, 39

‘Socratic fallacy’ 54

‘Socratic paradox’ 33, 64

wisdom, disavowal of 45, 46–52

sophists 46, 52, 69, 71–6

Sophocles 43, 99

Sophron 26

Sophroniscus 4, 12

Stoics 81–4, 86–7

Stone, I. F. 90

Strepsiades 18

Swenson, D. F. 108 n.12

T

Tertullian 87

Themistocles 30

Theodote 32

Thirty Tyrants 11–12, 16

Thrasymachus 40, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75

Thucydides 31

Tiresias 52

Toland, J. 89

tripartite soul, theory of 42

V

Vander Waerdt, P. A. 107 n.4

virtue, virtues 53, 56–8, 61–2, 75

analogous to health 64–5

cognitive theory of 59–61, 62–3, 64, 82–3

unity of 66–8, 82

Vlastos, G. 107 n.7

Voltaire (pseud. for F.-M. Arouet) 89

W

Wagner, R. 97

X

Xanthippe 5

Xenarchus 26

Xenophon 2, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 19–20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 31, 32–5, 39, 40, 81

Z

Zeno of Citium 81, 82

Zeus 8

Expand your collection of

VERY SHORT INTRODUCTIONS

1. Classics

2. Music

3. Buddhism

4. Literary Theory 5. Hinduism

6. Psychology

7. Islam

8. Politics

9. Theology

10. Archaeology 11. Judaism

12. Sociology

13. The Koran

14. The Bible

15. Social and Cultural Anthropology 16. History

17. Roman Britain 18. The Anglo-Saxon Age 19. Medieval Britain 20. The Tudors

21. Stuart Britain 22. Eighteenth-Century Britain 23. Nineteenth-Century Britain 24. Twentieth-Century Britain 25. Heidegger

26. Ancient Philosophy 27. Socrates

28. Marx

29. Logic

30. Descartes

31. Machiavelli 32. Aristotle

33. Hume

34. Nietzsche

35. Darwin

36. The European Union 37. Gandhi

38. Augustine

39. Intelligence 40. Jung

41. Buddha

42. Paul

43. Continental Philosophy 44. Galileo

45. Freud

46. Wittgenstein 47. Indian Philosophy 48. Rousseau

49. Hegel

50. Kant

51. Cosmology

52. Drugs

53. Russian Literature 54. The French Revolution 55. Philosophy

56. Barthes

57. Animal Rights 58. Kierkegaard 59. Russell

60. Shakespeare 61. Clausewitz

62. Schopenhauer 63. The Russian Revolution 64. Hobbes

65. World Music 66. Mathematics 67. Philosophy of Science 68. Cryptography 69. Quantum Theory 70. Spinoza

71. Choice Theory 72. Architecture 73. Poststructuralism 74. Postmodernism 75. Democracy

76. Empire

77. Fascism

78. Terrorism

79. Plato

80. Ethics

81. Emotion

82. Northern Ireland 83. Art Theory

84. Locke

85. Modern Ireland 86. Globalization 87. Cold War

88. The History of Astronomy 89. Schizophrenia 90. The Earth

91. Engels

92. British Politics 93. Linguistics 94. The Celts

95. Ideology

96. Prehistory

97. Political Philosophy 98. Postcolonialism 99. Atheism

100. Evolution

101. Molecules

102. Art History 103. Presocratic Philosophy 104. The Elements 105. Dada and Surrealism 106. Egyptian Myth 107. Christian Art

Visit the

VERY SHORT INTRODUCTIONS
Web site

www.oup.co.uk/vsi

Information
about all published titles
News of
forthcoming books

Extracts
from the books, including titles not yet published
Reviews
and views

Links
to other
web sites
and main OUP web page
Information about
VSIs in translation