CHAPTER I

THE PRESENT SIGNIFICANCE OF THE SOCRATIC ETHIC

I. History as rebarbarization 5

II. Philosophy as disintegrator 6

III. Individualism in Athens 7

IV. The Sophists 9

V. Intelligence as virtue 12

VI. The meaning of virtue 15

VII. “Instinct” and “reason” 23

VIII. The secularization of morals 27

IX. “Happiness” and “virtue” 31

X. The Socratic challenge 33