Here are the topics and readings for the course, listed in the order in which we will do them.  (We'll have to see if we get to section 9 by the end of the course.)  Required readings are drawn from the required texts and are preceded by '(A)'. Recommended readings are preceded by '(B)'.  Especially recommended readings are preceded by an asterisk.  Bibliographic details for texts can be found on the Select Bibliography.

1.  PRESOCRATIC BACKGROUND

• (B) Adkins, Merit and Responsibility, chs. i-xii; Aeschylus, Agamemnon; Barnes, Early Greek Philosophy (esp. Heraclitus, Parmenides, and Democritus); Dover, Greek Popular Morality; Hesiod, Works and Days and Theogony; Homer, Iliad (esp. i, vi, ix, xvii, xix, xxiv); Irwin, Plato's Moral Theory, ch. 2 and *"Plato: The Intellectual Background" in The Cambridge Companion to Plato, ed. Kraut; Sophocles, Antigone and Oedipus the King.

• (A) Apology.
• (B) Crito. *Aristotle, Metaphysics i 6, xiii 4; Cooper, "Notes on Xenophon's Socrates" in Cooper, Reason and Emotion; *Irwin, Plato's Ethics, ch. 1 and "Plato: The Intellectual Background" in The Cambridge Companion to Plato, ed. Kraut; Lacey, "Our Knowledge of Socrates" in Socrates, ed. Vlastos; Penner, "Socrates and the Early Dialogues" in The Cambridge Companion to Plato, ed. Kraut; *Vlastos, "The Paradox of Socrates" in Socrates, ed. Vlastos, and *Socrates, Ironist and Moral Philosopher, chs. 1-3.

• (A) Euthyphro; Laches; Lysis esp. 219d-220b; Euthydemus esp. 278e-282e.
• (B) *Charmides.  *Irwin, Plato's Ethics, chs. 2-5; *Penner, "The Unity of Virtue" reprinted in Essays on the Philosophy of Socrates, ed. Benson, and "Socrates and the Early Dialogues" in The Cambridge Companion to Plato, ed. Kraut; Santas, "Socrates at Work on Virtue and Knowledge in Plato's Laches" in Socrates, ed. Vlastos and Socrates; Vlastos, "What Did Socrates Understand By his 'What is F?' Question?" in Vlastos, Platonic Studies, *Socrates, Ironist and Moral Philosopher, chs. 4-8, and *Socratic Studies, chs. 1-3, 5.

• (A) Protagoras.
• (B) Devereux, "The Unity of the Virtues in Plato's Protagoras and Laches; Gosling and Taylor, The Greeks on Pleasure, ch. 3; *Irwin, Plato's Ethics, ch. 6; McDowell, "Virtue and Reason"; *Penner, "The Unity of Virtue" reprinted in Essays on the Philosophy of Socrates, ed. Benson; *Taylor, Plato's Protagoras [notes]; Rickless, "Socrates' Moral Intellectualism"; *Vlastos, "The Unity of the Virtues in the Protagoras" in Vlastos, Platonic Studies and "Introduction" to Plato's Protagoras, ed. Vlastos.

• (A) Crito.
• (B) Brickhouse and Smith, Socrates on Trial; *Irwin, "Socratic Inquiry and Politics" and *"Socrates and Athenian Democracy"; *Kraut, Socrates and the State; Santas, Socrates, ch. 1; Vlastos, "The Historical Socrates and Athenian Democracy" in Vlastos, Socratic Studies; Woozley, "Socrates on Disobeying the Law" in Socrates, ed. Vlastos.

• (A) Meno.
• (B) *Fine, "Inquiry in the Meno" in The Cambridge Companion to Plato, ed. Kraut; Gallop, Plato's Phaedo [notes]; *Irwin, Plato's Ethics, ch. 9; Moravcsik, "Learning as Recollection" in Plato I, ed. Vlastos; White, Plato on Knowledge and Reality, ch. 2.

• (A) Phaedo; Republic 476e-480a, 523-525, 596a-598d.
• (B) *Fine, "Separation" and "The One Over Many"; Irwin, Plato's Heracliteanism" and Plato's Ethics, ch. 10; Vlastos, "Reasons and Causes in the Phaedo" in Vlastos, Platonic Studies; White, Plato on Knowledge and Reality, ch. 3 and "Plato's Metaphysical Epistemology" in The Cambridge Companion to Plato, ed. Kraut.

• General.
• (A) Republic, esp. i-vii
• (B) Annas, An Introduction to Plato's Republic and Platonic Ethics, Old and New;Cross and Woozley, Plato's Republic; *Irwin, Plato's Ethics, chs. 11-18; Reeve, Philosopher-Kings; White, A Companion to Plato's Republic.
• Doubts about Justice.
• (A) Republic i-ii (through 367e).
• (B) *Gorgias; *Irwin, Plato's Ethics, chs. 11-12; White, "The Classification of Goods in Plato's Republic".
• Moral Psychology and the Virtues.
• (A) Republic ii-iv.
• (B) Cooper, "The Psychology of Justice in Plato" and "Plato's Theory of Human Motivation" in Cooper, Reason and Emotion; *Irwin, Plato's Ethics, chs. 13-14.
• The Eudaimonist Defense of Justice.
• (A) Republic iv, viii-ix.
• (B) *Gorgias; *Irwin, Plato's Ethics, chs. 15, 17; *Kraut, "The Defense of Justice in Plato's Republic" in The Cambridge Companion to Plato, ed. Kraut; *Sachs, "A Fallacy in Plato's Republic" in Plato II, ed. Vlastos; Vlastos, "Justice and Happiness in the Republic" in Vlastos, Platonic Studies.
• Platonic Love.
• (A) Symposium 210-212; Phaedrus 230-234, 237-257.
• (B) Brink, "Self-love and Altruism" and "Eudaimonism, Love and Friendship, and Political Community"; *Irwin, Plato's Ethics, ch. 18; Price, Love and Friendship in Plato and Aristotle, chs. 2-3; *Vlastos, "The Individual as Object of Love in Plato" in Vlastos, Platonic Studies.
• Metaphysics and Epistemology.
• (A) Republic v-vii, x.
• (B) *Phaedo; *Fine, "Knowledge and Belief in Republic v-vii"; *Irwin, Plato's Ethics, ch. 16; Vlastos, "Degrees of Reality in Plato" in Vlastos, Platonic Studies; White, Plato on Knowledge and Reality, ch. 4 and "Plato's Metaphysical Epistemology" in The Cambridge Companion to Plato, ed. Kraut.
• Political Theory.
• (A) Review Republic ii-ix, esp. 347bc, 368c 376d, 413c 434e, 451b 466d, 471c 474c, 487b 489d, 492a 496a, 499d 501c, 519b 521b, 539e 580c, 590a 592b.
• (B) *Laws and *Statesman; Barker, The Political Thought of Plato and Aristotle, esp. chs. 3-4; Brink, "Eudaimonism, Love and Friendship, and Political Community"; *Mill, On Liberty; Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, vol. 1; Vlastos, "Was Plato a Feminist?"; White, "The Ruler's Choice".

• (A) Parmenides, esp. through 137
• (B) *Fine, "Aristotle and the More Accurate Arguments"; Cohen, "The Logic of the Third Man"; Meinwald, "Good-bye to the Third Man" in The Cambridge Companion to Plato, ed. Kraut; Rickless, "How Parmenides Saved the Forms"; *Vlastos, "Plato's Third Man Argument (Parm 132a1-b2)" in Vlastos, Platonic Studies.