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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewSocrates and the Immoralists is a dense read filled with the usual analytic tools: abbreviations (PH, EH), reconstructed arguments (S3a, S3b), and detailed appeal to the secondary literature. Not that there is anything wrong with that. Indeed, this work will serve as a good review of a central issue in Socratic studies. * Ancient Philosophy *
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Preface Part 2 Socrates Chapter 3 Socrates' Mission Chapter 4 Was Socrates Just? Chapter 5 Socrates' Choice for Justice: Apology and Crito Part 6 Socrates' Immoralist Opponents Chapter 7 Socrates' Immoral Opponents and the Failure of Moral Reform Chapter 8 Socrates v. Polus Chapter 9 Socrates v. Callicles Part I: Natural Justice Chapter 10 Socrates v. Callicles Part II: Unqualified Hedonism Chapter 11 Socrates v. Thrasymachus Part I: Thrasymachus' World View Chapter 12 Socrates v. Thrasumachus Part II: Is Thrasymachus Refuted? Part 13 The Happiness of the Just Life Chapter 14 Socrates and Protagoras Chapter 15 Evaluative and Psychological Hedonism Chapter 16 Pleasure, Virtue, and Happiness
