Being and Logos

Preface to the First Edition Preface to the Second Edition Introduction Section 1. On Reading Plato Section 2. The Questions: Philosophy, Logos, Being Section 3. The Way of Platonic Dialogue: Preliminary Reflections Part One. Socratic Logos Chapter I. Provocations of Socratic Logos: Apology of Socrates Section 1. The Prologue to the Apology (17 a - 19 a) (a) The Preface (17 a - 18 a) (b) The Setting Forth of the Accusations (18 a - 19 a) Section 2. The Way of Socrates (a) Aristophanes and Anaxagoras (19 a - d) (b) In Search of Causes (Phaedo 95 e - 102 a) Section 3. Service to Apollo (10 d - 24 b) (a) Images of Sophistry (19 d - 21 a) (b) The Saying of the Oracle (21 a - 24 b) Section 4. Socrates and the City (24 b - 42 a) (a) The PhilosopherOs Stand with Respect to the City (b) How the Philosopher Appears to the City Chapter II. Ignorance and Recollection: Meno Section 1. Meno (70 a - 79 e) (a) Who Is Meno? (70 a - 71 d) (b) Whole and Parts (71 e - 74 b) (c) Logos and the Whole (74 b- 77 b) (d) Memory and the Whole (77 b - 79 e) Section 2. Meno and Socrates (79 e - 86 d) (a) MenoOs Paradox (79 e - 81 a) (b) Recollection and the Paradox (81 a - e) (c) Recollection and Imaging (phaedo 72 e - 75 d) (d) Exhibition 81 e - 85 c) (e) Who Meno Is (85 c - 86 d) Section 3. Meno and Anytus (86 d - 96 d) (a) Virtue and Knowledge (b) Anytus and the Whole Section 4. Meno, Socrates, Anytus (96 d - 100 c) (a) Opinion (b) Divine Dispensation Chapter III. Beyond the City: Phaedrus Section 1. The Setting (227 a - 230 e) (a) The Opening Question (227 a- b) (b) Love of Speeches (227 b - 230 e) Section 2. The Three Speeches (230 e -2 57 b) (a) LysiasO Speech (230 e - 237 a) (b) SocratesO First Speech (237 a - 243 e) (c) SocratesO Second Speech (243 e - 257 b) (i) Madness (243 e - 245 c) (ii) The Question of the Soul (245 c - 246 a) (iii) The Movement of the Soul (246 a - 249 d) (iv) The Beautiful (249 d - 257 b) Section 3. The Perfection of Speech (257 b - 279 c) (a) Written Speeches (257 b - 259 d) (b) Speech and Knowledge (259 e - 261 a) (c) Dialectic (261 a - 269 c) (d) Speech and the Soul (269 c - 279 c) Postscript to Part One. The Way of Platonic Dialogue: Further Reflections Part Two. Being and Logos Chapter IV. Logos and Its Parts: Cratylus Section 1. The Problem of Names (383 a - 384 c) (a) Cratylus (383 a - 384 a) (b) The Initial Appeals (384 a - 384 c) Section 2. The Art of Naming (384 c - 390 e) (a) Hermogenes (384 c - 385 b) (b) Truth and Measure (385 b - 386 d) (c) The Virtue of Naming (386 d - 388 a) (d) The End of Naming (388 a - c) (e) The Origin of Names (388 c - 389 a) (f) The Making and Testing of Names (389 a - 390 e) Section 3. Human Names and Divine Names (390 e- 397 a) (a) Natural Names (390 e- 392 b) (b) Prelude to the Comedy (392 b - 396d) (c) The Appeal to Divine Names (d) Inspiration (396 d - 397 a) (e) Dialectic and Etymology Section 4. The Etymological Comedy (397 a - 421 c) (a) Ways of Interpretation (b) Structure of the Etymologies (397 a - c) (c) Descent 397 c - 400 c) (d) Meausre (400 d - 408 d) (e) Movement (408 d - 421 c) Section 5. Imitation (421 c - 427 e) (a) The Primary Names (421 c - 422 b) (b) Naming as Imitation (422 b - 424 a) (c) Imitation and the Making of Logos (424 a - 426 b) (d) The Comic Regress (426 b - 427 e) Section 6. Cratylus (427 e - 437 d) (a) Falsehood (427 e - 429 e) (b) Images (429 e - 433 b) (c) Cratylus and Hermogenes (433 b - 435 d) (d) Cratylus and Socrates (435 d - 437 d) Section 7. Names and Things (437 d - 440 e) (a) The Measure of Names (437 d - 439 b) (b) SocratesO Dreams (439 b - d) (c) Being of Which the Search Is (439 d - 440 e) Chapter V. The Upward Way: Republic Section 1. Down to Piraeus (Book I) (a) The Mythos of the Republic (327 a - b) (b) The Initial Confrontation (327 b - 328 b) (c) Cephalus (328 b - 331 d) (d) Polemarchus (331 d - 336 a) (e) Thrasymachus (336 b - 354 c) (i) The Advantage of the Stronger (338 c - 347 e) (ii) Is Injustice Stronger? (347 e - 354 c) Section 2. The City and the Soul (Book II - Book V, 473 c) (a) The New Beginning (357 a - 367 e) (b) The Building of Cities (367 e - 427 d) (i) The City of Artisans (369 b - 372 c) (ii) The Luxurious City and Its Purging (372 c - 376 c) (iii) Education of the Guardians (376 c - 404 e) (c) Virtue (427 d - 445 e) (i) Virtue in the City (427 d - 434 c) (ii) Virtue and the Soul (434 d - 445 e) (d) The Comedy of the City (449 a - 473 c) Section 3. The Philosopher (473 c- 507 b) (a) The Philosopher as Lover (474 c - 475 e) (b) The Philosopher and the Eide (475 e - 476 d) (c) Knowledge and Opinion (476 d - 480 a) (d) The Philosopher and the City (484 a - 507 b) Section 4. The Good (507 b - 509 c) (a) The Analogy (507 b - 508 d) (b) Good, Truth, being (508 e - 509 c) Section 5. The Divided Line (509 d - 511 e, 521 c - 535 a) (a) The Three Statements (b) The Visible (c) Dianoia (i) SocratesO Statements Regarding Dianoia (ii) The Provation and Course of Dianoia (iii) The Two Kinds of Dianoia (iv) The Beginning of Upward-Mving Dianoia (d) Dialectic Section 6. The Cave (514 a - 521 b) (a) Gathering (b) Negativity (c) The Downward Way and the Unity of the Republic Chapter VI. The Way of Logos: Sophist Section 1. In Search of the Sophist (216 a - 232 a) (a) The Prologue (216 a - 218 a) (b) The Angler (218 a - 221 c) (c) The First Five Sophists (221 c - 226 a) (d) The Sixth Sophist (226 a - 232 a) Section 2. The Problem of Being and Non-Being (232 a - 251 a) (a) The New Search (232 a - 236 d) (b) The Problems (236 d - 242 b) (i) Appearance, False Logos, False Opinion (236 c - 237 b) (ii) Non-Being (237 b - 239 c) (iii) Image (239 c - 242 b) (c) The Questioning of Parmenides (242 b - 245 e) (d) The Battle of Giants (245 e - 251 a) (i) The Giants (246 e - 248 a) (ii) Friends of th eEide (248 a - 249 d) (iii) Aporia about Being (249 d - 251 a) Section 3. Being and Non-Being (251 a - 259 d) (a) Community (251 a - 252 e) (b) Dialectic (252 e - 254 b) (c) The Five Kinds (254 b - 257 a) (i) Preliminary Considerations (ii) Principal Considerations (d) Non-Being as Other (257 a - 259 d) Section 4. The Community of Being and Logos (259 d - 268 d) (a) The Task (259 d - 261 c) (b) Names and Logos (261 c - 262 e) (c) True and False Logos (262 e - 264 b) (d) Capture (264 b - 268 d) Postscript. The Way of Platonic Dialogue Indexes