Plato on the value of philosophy : the art of argument in the Gorgias and Phaedrus / Tushar Irani, Wesleyan University, Connecticut.

Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Epigraph; Contents; Preface; Note on Editions and Translations Used; Introduction; Overcoming Misology; Some Fifth-Century Background: Plato and his Predecessors; Some Fourth-Century Background: Isocrates on the Value of Philosophy; The Argument of this Book; Part I The Gorgias; 1 Socrates and Gorgias on the Aims of Argument; 1.1 Two Ways of Life; 1.2 The Force of Argument; 1.3 The Turn Within; 1.4 The Personal and the Political; 2 Towards an Art of Argument; 2.1 The Art of Politics; 2.2 The Ends of Rhetoric; 2.3 The Ends of Philosophy

2.4 A True Art of Rhetoric?3 The Contradictions of Callicles; 3.1 Two Kinds of Love; 3.2 Callicles' Great Speech; 3.3 The Disharmony of the Rhetorical Life; 3.4 The Harmony of the Philosophical Life; 3.5 Friendship, Wisdom, and the Common Good; 4 Pleasure, Virtue, and the Human Good; 4.1 Callicles' Hedonism; 4.2 The Value of Wisdom; 4.3 Vindicating the Philosophical Life; 4.4 A Problem Resolved; 4.5 A Final Impasse?; Part II The Phaedrus; 5 Socrates and Lysias on the Aims of Love; 5.1 Philosophical Eros; 5.2 Lysias' Speech: Friendship without Love?

5.3 Socrates' First Speech: The Desires of the Soul5.4 Socrates' Second Speech: The Education of Desire; 5.5 The Motivation of the Philosopher Revisited; 6 Loving Wisdom; 6.1 Beauty and Truth; 6.2 Eros and Appetite; 6.3 Coercion and Compulsion; 6.4 The Force of Necessity; 7 Loving Others; 7.1 The Value of Friendship; 7.2 Psuchagogia, Philologia, Philosophia; 7.3 Friendship without Assimilation?; 7.4 Non-Ideal Interlocutors; 8 The Self-Motion of the Soul; 8.1 The Care of the Soul; 8.2 Alcidamas on Ensouled Speech; 8.3 The Art of Rhetoric; 8.4 Cultivating Minds; Conclusion

From Philosophia to PhilanthropiaSocratic Method and Socratic Egoism; Philosophy and the Ends of Life; Bibliography; Subject Index; Index Locorum