Opposition between the Gorgias and Philêbus, about Gorgias and Rhetoric 380
Peculiarity of the Philêbus--Plato applies the same principle of classification--true and false--to Cognitions and Pleasures 382
Distinction of true and false--not applicable to pleasures _ib._
Plato acknowledges no truth and reality except in the Absolute--Pleasures which he admits to be true--and why 385
Plato could not have defended this small list of Pleasures, upon his own admission, against his opponents--the Pleasure-haters, who disallowed pleasures altogether 387
Sokrates in this dialogue differs little from these Pleasure-haters 389
Forced conjunction of Kosmology and Ethics--defect of the Philêbus 391
Directive sovereignty of Measure--how explained and applied in the Protagoras _ib._
How explained in Philêbus--no statement to what items it is applied 393
Classification of true and false--how Plato applies it to Cognitions 394
Valuable principles of this classification--difference with other dialogues 395
Close of the Philêbus--Graduated elements of Good 397
Contrast between the Philêbus and the Phædrus, and Symposion, in respect to Pulchrum, and intense Emotions generally 398
Persons and situation of the dialogue 401
Funeral harangue at Athens--Choice of a public orator--Sokrates declares the task of the public orator to be easy--Comic exaggeration of the effects of the harangue 401
Sokrates professes to have learnt a funeral harangue from Aspasia, and to be competent to recite it himself. Menexenus entreats him to do so 402
Compliments of Menexenus after Sokrates has finished, both to the harangue itself and to Aspasia _ib._
Supposed period--shortly after the peace of Antalkidas _ib._
Custom of Athens about funeral harangues. Many such harangues existed at Athens, composed by distinguished orators or logographers--Established type of the harangue 404
Plato in this harangue conforms to the established type--Topics on which he insists 405
Consolation and exhortation to surviving relatives 407
Admiration felt for this harangue, both at the time and afterwards 407
Probable motives of Plato in composing it, shortly after he established himself at Athens as a teacher--His competition with Lysias--Desire for celebrity both as rhetor and as dialectician _ib._