Author:
Schindler, D. C.
Imprint:Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2008.
Descriptionxii, 358 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:Introduction. Misology and the modern academy -- La raison oblige? -- Dogmatism and skepticism -- Misological habits -- The significance of Plato -- Plan and method -- Chapter 1. A logic of violence -- Where do we start? -- Shadows of justice -- The power of appearance -- Thrasymachus: relativism as violence -- Common good or good of each? -- Crisis -- Argument as drama -- Shifting horizons -- Chapter 2. With good reason -- The first sailing -- The twofold nature of goodness -- Forms, likenesses, and the souls that love them -- The good as cause of truth -- Approaches to the good -- Intimate knowledge -- Knowledge and love as ascent -- Surprised by truth -- Chapter 3. Breaking in -- The overburdened image -- Keeping the parts together -- Bringing forth the good -- A good turn -- The "perfect" image -- The dramatic structure of knowledge -- Chapter 4. On being invisible -- An altogether different level -- Socrates as a stand-in for the good -- Seeing through -- Obedience unto death -- Justice and obedience -- Showing the philosopher's invisibility -- The invisible author -- Chapter 5. The truth is defenseless -- Guarding reason -- Real knowledge and ecstatic reason -- Good communication -- War and battle -- The indefensible defense of the defenseless -- The "noble risk" of ignorance -- Coda: Restoring appearances -- Is Plato a platonist? -- Contradiction in appearance -- Good distance -- The way up and the way down -- Conversio and phantasmata -- Socrates redivivus -- Plato goes down.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-351) and index.
