Plato and the Socratic dialogue: the philosophical use of a literary form

Sokratikoi logoi: the literary and intellectual background of Plato's work 2. The interpretation of Plato 3. Socrates 4. Plato as a minor Socratic: Ion and Hippias Minor 5. Gorgias: Plato's manifesto for philosophy 6. The priority of definition: from Laches to Meno 7. Charmides and the search for beneficial knowledge 8. Protagoras: virtue as knowledge 9. The object of love 10. The emergence of dialectic 11. The presentation of the Forms 12. Phaedrus and the limits of writing Appendix Bibliography.