Plato and the body : reconsidering socratic asceticism / Coleen P. Zoller.

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Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Interpreting Asceticism in Plato; 1.1 Loving Wisdom and Living in a Body; 1.2 Two Interpretations of Socratic Asceticism; 1.3 A Brief Look at Some Consequences of Misinterpreting Socratic Asceticism; 1.4 Strange Claims and the Analogy Strategy; 1.5 Pedagogical Irony; 1.6 Plan for the Chapters; Chapter 2. Moderation and Training for Death in the Phaedo; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Resolving Two Problems with Embodied Inquiry; 2.3 Moderation and the Separate Soul; 2.4 How Bacchants Train for Death; 2.5 Becoming Like God in a Life Raft

Chapter 3. Beauty, Education, and Erotic Ascent in the Symposium and Phaedrus3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The Erotic Philosopher; 3.2.1 Socrates's Abstinence with Phaedrus; 3.2.2 Socrates's Abstinence with Alcibiades; 3.2.3 A Philosopher Married with Children; 3.3 Erôs the Educational; 3.3.1 Two Versions of Erôs; 3.3.2 Desire, Recollection, and Confusion about the Forms; 3.3.3 The Combination of Physical and Psychic Beauty; 3.4 Nectar and Ambrosia for Plato's Philosophers; 3.4.1 Hiccups and the Sneeze Treatment; 3.4.2 Nectar and Ambrosia for the Divine Horses

3.4.3 Loving Boys with the Help of Philosophy3.5 The Unlucky Erotic Philosopher; Chapter 4. Health, Justice, and Peace in the Republic and Gorgias; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Justice as Individual Harmony; 4.2.1 Care of the Soul in the Gorgias; 4.4.2 Care of the Soul in the Republic; 4.3 The Peculiar Nature of Leaders in Plato's Republic; 4.3.1 Rare Combinations; 4.3.2 Misunderstandings and Mistaken Identities; 4.3.3 Loving the Good and Taking Refuge from Politics?; 4.3.4 Loving the Good and Leading Communities; 4.4 Justice as Political Harmony; 4.4.1 Plato's Emphasis on the Dangers of Poverty

4.4.2 Socrates's First City4.5 Know Justice, Know Peace; Chapter 5. Interpretative Possibilities for the Late Dialogues; 5.1 Common Themes; 5.2 Positive Attention to the Physical; 5.3 Moderation and Measure; 5.4 Construing the Political; Epilogue; Notes; Works Cited; Index

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