Virtues of Authenticity:
Essays on Plato and Socrates
Alexander Nehamas

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

	Acknowledgments
	List of Abbreviations
	Introduction
I	Socrates: Questions of Goodness and Method
1	Meno's Paradox and Socrates as a Teacher	3
2	Socratic Intellectualism	27
3	What Did Socrates Teach and to Whom Did He Teach It?	59
4	Voices of Silence: On Gregory Vlastos's Socrates	83
5	Eristic, Antilogic, Sophistic, Dialectic: Plato's Demarcation of Philosophy from Sophistry	108
II	Plato: Questions of Metaphysics and Epistemology
6	On Parmenides' Three Ways of Inquiry	125
7	Plato on the Imperfection of the Sensible World	138
8	Confusing Universals and Particulars in Plato's Early Dialogues	159
9	Self-Predication and Plato's Theory of Forms	176
10	Participation and Predication in Plato's Later Thought	196
11	Episteme and Logos in Plato's Later Thought	224
III	Plato: Questions of Beauty and the Arts
12	Plato on Imitation and Poetry in Republic X	251
13	Plato and the Mass Media	279
IV	Plato: Individual Works
14	The Symposium	303
15	The Republic	316
16	The Phaedrus	329
	Index of Passages Cited	359
	General Index	365

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