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The Philebus is the only Platonic dialogue that takes as its central theme the fundamental Socratic question of the good, understood as that which makes for the best or happiest life. It offers an extended psychological and epistemological investigation of such topics as sensation, memory, desire, anticipation, the truth and falsity of pleasures, and the types and gradations of knowledge, as well as a methodological exposition of dialectic and a metaphysical schema—found nowhere else in the dialogues—that is intended to illuminate the nature of mixture. In its interweaving of ethical, metaphysical, and epistemological issues, the Philebus offers a unique opportunity to assess the relation of these topics in Plato's mature thought and so to gain insight into his philosophical vision as a whole. This edition also includes parallel passages from other Platonic dialogues and related material from Aristotle, the Stoics, and Epicurus.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Plato, Socrates, and Their Time: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
Philebus
Appendix A: Plato on the Good as Pleasure or Wisdom
Republic 505a-505d
Appendix B: Plato on the Forms and the Good
Republic 475e-476d
Timaeus 27d-28a
Symposium 210e-211b
Parmenides 130a-135c
Republic 505d-509b
Appendix C: Plato on Dialectic
Republic 531e-534d
Sophist 253a-254b, 259d-e
Appendix D: Plato on Four Kinds, Elements, Divine Intellect
Timaeus 29d-30c, 46c-e, 47e-52d
Phaedo 97b-99c
Appendix E: Plato on Kinds of Pleasure, False and Impure Pleasures
Republic 580d-587a
Republic 558d-559c
Protagoras 351b-358a
Gorgias 491d-495b
Appendix F: Aristotle on Pleasure
Nicomachean Ethics X.2-5
Appendix G: Aristotle on Metaphysics
Metaphysics I.6
Appendix H: Epicurus on Pleasure
From Diogenes Laertius, "Letter to Menoeceus," Lives of Eminent Philosophers, X.121-132
Appendix I: The Stoics on Physics and Metaphysics
From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, VII.134-156
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