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4 Socratic Values 123
4.1 What Is Valuable? 123
4.2 Socratic Conceptions of Happiness, 129
4.3 Is Virtue Really a Component of Happiness? 141
4.4 Does Socrates Think that Virtue Is
Necessary for Happiness? 		147
4.5 Goodness and Virtue, 149
4.6 A Preliminary Assessment of
the Plausibility of Socrates' View, 		153
Notes, 153
Suggested Readings, 154
5 Socrates on Wisdom and Motivation 157
5.1 The Socratic Paradoxes, 157
5.2 The Unity of the Virtues, 158
5.3 Socrates' Denial of Akrasia, 173
Notes, 182
Suggested Readings, 182
6 Socrates' Politics and Political Philosophy 185
6.1 Historical and Textual Problems, 185
6.2 Socrates and Political Activity, 186
6.3 Socrates' Political Affiliation? 189
6.4 Socrates on Obedience to Law, 200
6.5 Socrates on Just Punishment, 216
Notes, 226
Suggested Readings, 228
7 Socrates and Religion 231
7.1 Survey of the Problems Assessing
Socrates' Religion, 		231
7.2 Was Socrates Guilty? 234
7.3 Socrates' "Mission," 241
7.4 Socrates' Daimonion, 244
7.5 Socrates on Death and the Afterlife, 252
Notes, 261
Suggested Readings, 264

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Philosophy of Socrates. Contributors: Thomas C. Brickhouse - author, Nicholas D. Smith - author. Publisher: Westview Press. Place of Publication: Boulder, CO. Publication Year: 2000. Page Number: vi.
    
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