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Bryn Mawr Classical Review 03.03.20 (2777 words) |
 | Vlastos insists that Plato could not portray Socrates as cheating, knowing himself that the arguments are misleading, and claim that Socrates was "the most just" of all men he had ever known. |
| Vlastos continues to argue against Irwin's view that for Socrates virtue is purely instrumental to happiness; and he distinguishes Socrates' view from the view we associate with the Stoics, that virtue is completely constitutive of happiness ("The Identity Thesis," a version of which he himself held previously). |
| Vlastos offers an elaborate and subtle argument to show that the passages which seem to show quite clearly that Socrates held a view of eudaemonism consistent with the Identity Thesis are also consistent with the Sufficiency Thesis; and he offers other textual evidence to support the Sufficiency Thesis as Socrates'. |
| Bryn Mawr Classical Review 94.10.04 (1371 words) |
| As Vlastos proclaims, "Socrates has been and always will be my philosophical hero (133)." Not surprisingly therefore, the attempted recovery of Socrates' philosophy is also a defense of it and perforce a criticism, rather muted in these two volumes, of Plato's innovations. |
| Vlastos' interpretation is set squarely against at least two longstanding alternatives. |
| This is the knowledge Vlastos claims that Socrates believes he has acquired by means of the refutation of the claims of his interlocutors. |
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