The Argument of the Action

Seth Benardete (1930–2001) was professor of classics at New York University and a lecturer in philosophy at the New School for Social Research Graduate Faculty. His books include Plato’s “Laws” and The Rhetoric of Morality and Philosophy, as well as translations of Plato’s Symposium and other works. Ronna Burger is Catherine and Henry J. Gaisman Chair in the Department of Philosophy at Tulane University. Michael Davis is professor emeritus of philosophy at Sarah Lawrence College.

Preface
Introduction
1. The First Crisis in First Philosophy
2. Achilles and the Iliad
3. The Aristeia of Diomedes and the Plot of the Iliad
4. The Furies of Aeschylus
5. Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus
6. Euripides' Hippolytus
7. On Greek Tragedy
8. Physics and Tragedy: On Plato's Cratylus
9. On Plato's Symposium
10. Protagoras's Myth and Logos
11. On Plato's Lysis
12. On Interpreting Plato's Charmides
13. Plato's Laches: A Question of Definition
14. On Plato's Phaedo
15. Plato's Theaetetus: On the Way of the Logos
16. On Plato's Sophist
17. The Plan of Plato's Statesman
18. On the Timaeus
19. On Wisdom and Philosophy: The First Two Chapters of Aristotle's Metaphysics A
20. Strauss on Plato
Selected Works by Seth Benardete
Index