PHL109: Ancient Philosophy: Philebus

Contents: The nature of pleasure and knowledge : ontological and methodological considerations (11A-31A) -- The classifications of pleasure and knowledge (31B-59D) -- The good life and the good as cause (59E-67B) -- Appendix : the Philebus and Aristotle's testimony : interpretations of Jackson and Sayre

A Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of Texas at Austin, 1985).

This translation originally published as Plato's examination of pleasure, 1945.

Includes an essay on "Prudence in the Philebus."