Lexington Books
Pages: 142
Trim: 6⅜ x 9
978-1-7936-1121-5 • Hardback • July 2021 • $90.00 • (£69.00)
978-1-7936-1122-2 • eBook • July 2021 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Zenon Culverhouse is associate professor of philosophy at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Socrates on Homer, Part 1: 364b3-365d5
Chapter 2: Δύναμις in Action: 365d6-366c4
Chapter 3: Calculated Deception: 366c5-369c2
Chapter 4: Socrates on Homer, Part 2: 369b8-371e5
Chapter 5: “If in fact there is such a person”; 372b-End
Conclusions
Epilogue: The Influence of the Hippias Minor on Aristotle’s Ethics
Bibliography
"This is an invaluable commentary on Plato’s Hippias Minor that every student of the dialogue will want by her side."
— Chris Bobonich, Stanford University
"Zenon Culverhouse has done an exemplary job of scholarship in this book, engaging not only with the very diverse scholarly treatments of the Hippias Minor but also with the nuances of both argument and humor in the text itself. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in this important, but also in many ways puzzling, Platonic dialogue."
— Nicholas D. Smith, Lewis and Clark College
"By concentrating on Plato’s use of two different words for 'better,' one applied in a moral sense, the other confined to a superior capacity to do something whether or not doing it is immoral, Zenon Culverhouse offers an elegant solution to Plato’s problematic little dialogue Hippias Minor."
— William H. F. Altman, author of Plato the Teacher
"A well-argued and elucidating treatment of one of Plato’s most puzzling dialogues. Culverhouse successfully establishes Hippias Minor as a foundational text for understanding Socratic philosophy."
— Paul Carelli, University of North Florida