Preface | |
Selected Bibliography | |
Introductory Essay | |
The introductory challenge: pleasure vs. knowledge (11a-14b) | p. 1 |
The "dialectical" part of the discussion: the classification of pleasure and knowledge (14b-31b) | p. 5 |
The problem of the One and Many (14b-20a) | p. 5 |
The Dream of Socrates and the compromise solution (20b-23b) | p. 14 |
The fourfold division of all beings (23b-27c) | p. 18 |
The genera of pleasure and knowledge (27c-31b) | p. 25 |
The "critical" part of the discussion: critique of pleasure and knowledge (31b-59d) | p. 30 |
The critique of pleasure: the nature of pleasure and pain (31b-36c) | p. 30 |
The question of false pleasures (36c-50e) | p. 38 |
False pleasures: pleasures falsely depicted (36c-41b) | p. 38 |
False pleasures: inflated pleasures (41b-42c) | p. 46 |
False pleasures: confusion of pleasure with freedom from pain (42c-44e) | p. 48 |
False pleasures: pleasures mixed with pain (44e-50e) | p. 52 |
True pleasures (50e-55c) | p. 60 |
The critique of knowledge: pure and impure forms (55c-59d) | p. 66 |
The "synthetic" part of the discussion: mixing together the good life (59d-64b) | p. 72 |
The solution of the discussion: the final ranking of goods (64c-67b) | p. 79 |
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