Assignment:
Question: In Socrates's view, is virtue both necessary and sufficient tor eudaimonia (happiness)? Is his position defensible?
Reading:
- Plato, Crito 48b-d
- Symposium 204e-205a •Euthydemus 278e-282a
Secondary Reading:
- G. Vlastos, ‘Happiness and Virtue in Socrates' Moral Theory', in his Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher (OUP 1991), 200-232
- T. Irwin, Plato's Ethics (OUP 1995), 52-64
- A.W. Price, Virtue and Reason in Plato and Aristotle (OUP 2011), 9-32