PRELUDE; THE DEATH OF SOCRATES
1. Apology 19a-23b: Socrates' defence at his trial,
and his confession of ignorance
2. Phaedo 115a-118a: the death of Socrates
PART I: THE SEARCH FOR A SOCRATIC ETHICS
3. Meno 80a-c: Meno describes Socrates
4. Theaetetus 148c-151d: Socrates describes
himself
5. Meno 71d-74a: the search for definitions (i)
6. Theaetetus 145e-147c: the search for
definitions (ii)
7. Crito 48b-53a: obedience to the state
8. Euthyphro 6d-lle: holiness and the gods
9. Republic 334b-336a: justice towards enemies
PART II: CAN VIRTUE BE TAUGHT?
10. Meno 86c-90a: can virtue be taught? (i)
11. Protagoras 318a-325c: can virtue be taught? (ii)
12. Protagoras 329b-333b: the unity of the virtues
13. Protagoras 349d-351b: a counter-example to the
unity thesis: courage
PART III: JUSTICE AND PLEASURE
14. Protagoras 351b-358d: pleasure and the
good
15. Protagoras 358d-361c: courage (ii), and a
conclusion about teaching virtue
16. Gorgias 474c-475e: 'It is better to suffer
injustice than to do injustice'
17. Gorgias 491e-492c: why be temperate? (i)
18. Gorgias 493d-497a; pleasure and the good (ii)
19. Republic 359b-360d: why be just?
(i: Gyges' ring)
20. Republic 588b-590d: why be just and
temperate? (ii: an answer)
21. Pbilebus 45d-52c; mixed and unmixed
pleasures; and art
PART IV: GOD AND THE SOUL
22. Pbaedo 70c-72d: the immortality of the soul (i)
23. Republic 435e-442e: the forms in the soul (i);
their harmony; and justice
24. Republic 608c-611a: the immortality of the soul
(ii); and why be just? (iii: another answer)
25. Pbaedrus 245c-248e: the immortality of the
soul (ill); and its parts (ii)
26. Laws 894e-897b: the existence of the divine soul
PART V: KNOWLEDGE AND THE FORMS (i)
27. Meno 96e-98b: knowledge and belief
28. Meno 80c-86b: recollection (i); the paradox
of inquiry
29. Pbaedo 72e-77b; recollection (ii); the
immortality of the soul (iv)
30. Pbaedo 96a-101d: scientific explanation
through the Forms
31. Republic 475e-480a: knowledge, belief and
ignorance
32. Republic 595c-598b: the Forms; imitation;
and art (ii)
33. Republic 508a-509b: the image of the sun
34. Republic 514a-519a: the image of the cave; or
can virtue be taught? (iii)
PART VI: KNOWLEDGE AND THE FORMS (ii)
35. Parmenides 130b-135c: criticisms of the theory
of Forms
36. Theaetetus 170a-171c; Protagoras refuted
37. Theaetetus 181b-183c: Heracleitus refuted
38. Theaetetus 184b-186e: knowledge is not
perception
39. Theaetetus 200d-201c: knowledge is not true
belief
40. Theaetetus 206c-210b: knowledge is not true
belief with an account
41. Sophist 245e-249e: the battle of the gods and
the giants
42. Sophist 254b-258e: the greatest kinds
43. Timaeus 51d-e: understanding and true belief
44. Philehus 58d-62d: letting in opinion
EPILOGUE: PLATO ON WRITING PHILOSOPHY
45. Phaedrus 275c-e
46. Seventh Letter 344c