Socrates on the Life of Philosophical Inquiry (eBook)

Konstantinos Stefou studied Classics and Ancient Philosophy at the University of Ioannina. In April 2014 he completed his PhD entitled ‘Early Greek Moral Values and Political Behavior in Plato’s Works’, after which he spent two years as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the same University. From 2016 to 2018 he served as a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at the Department of Classical Studies and Philosophy, University of Cyprus, and at the Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology, University of Thessaly. He is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the Philosophical Seminar of the University of Cologne, working on a project on Plato’s handling of medicine. He has authored a series of papers on the Platonic Socrates and the so-called ‘Socratic’ dialogues, and is currently co-editing an anthology of Roman poetry. His research interests include ancient Greek and Roman literature, philosophy, historiography, oratory and rhetoric, and medicine.

Acknowledgements.- Abbreviations and conventions,- Introduction,- Chapter 1: The preamble (178a1-181d7).- Chapter 2: Nicias’ and Laches’ speeches on ‘fighting in armor’ (hoplomachia) (181d8-184d4).- Chapter 3: Socrates’ proposed methodology (184d5-187b7).- Chapter 4: Nicias and Laches give their consent to Socrates’ cross-questioning (187b8-189d3).- Chapter 5: Socrates initiates the dialectic discussion (189d4-190e3).- Chapter 6: Laches’ first definition of andreia (190e4-192b8).- Chapter 7: Laches’ second definition of andreia (192b9-194b7).- Chapter 8: Invitation of Nicias to the discussion (194b8-194e10).- Chapter 9: Nicias’ definition of andreia and its elenchus led by Laches (194e11-196b7).- Chapter 10: Socrates’ first examination of Nicias’ definition, after Laches steps back (196c1-197e5).- Chapter 11: Socrates’ refutation of Nicias’ definition (197e6-200a3).- Chapter 12: The end of the dialogue (200a4-201c5).- Conclusion.- General Index.