C. D. C. Reeve develops a powerful new account of the age-old argument over whether the just are happier than the unjust, drawing from a new understanding of Plato's conception of philosophy.

• Introduction


• Acknowledgments


• Abbreviations


• Chapter 1: Human Wisdom


• Chapter 2: Alcibiades and the Socratic Craft of Love


• Chapter 3: Cephalus, Odysseus, and the Importance of Experience


• Chapter 4: Glaucon's Thrasymachean Challenge


• Chapter 5: Souls, Soul-Parts, and Persons


• Chapter 6: Beauty and Goodness, Politics and Genitals


• Chapter 7: Education and the Acquisition of Knowledge


• Chapter 8: Craft, Dialectic, and the Form of the Good


• Chapter 9: The Happiness of the Philosopher-Kings

C. D. C. Reeve is Delta Kappa Epsilon Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He works primarily on Plato and Aristotle, but is interested in philosophy generally and has published on film and on the philosophy of sex and love.