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Cover -- Listening To Reason In Plato And Aristotle -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- General Introduction -- Outline Of The Book -- Part One Plato's Republic -- Introduction To Part I Three Levels Of Argument -- 1: The Longer Route -- 1. Conflicting Signals -- 2. The Influence Of The Non-rational Parts -- 3. The Role Of Mathematics -- 4. Natural Philosophers -- 2: The Middle Route -- 1. The Evidence Of 493e2-494a4 -- 2. The Conversation With Glaucon: The Lovers Of Sights And Sounds -- 3. The Conversation With Adeimantus: Convincing 'the Many' 4. The Value Of Following The Middle Route -- 3: The Shorter Route -- 1. The Case For Pessimism -- (a) The Interplay Of The Characters -- (b) Considerations From Moral Psychology -- (c) The Role Of Education -- (d) Reasons For Caution -- 2. The Case For Qualified Optimism -- (a) The Evidence Of Book Ix (588b1-592b5) -- (b) A Parallel In Book Vi -- 3. Concluding Aporia -- 4: The Role Of Education -- Introduction -- 1. Exposure To Beauty In Rep. Iii 400c8-402c9 -- (a) Beauty And Reason (400c8-402a6) -- (b) The Reading Analogy (402a7-c8) -- (c) Implications 2. The Effects Of Mimetic Poetry In Rep. X -- 3. Further Exclusions -- (a) The Balance Between Music And Gymnastics (iii 410b5-412a7) -- (b) Premature Dialectic (vii 537e1-539d7) -- Conclusion -- 5: Irrationality In Republic Viii-ix: Timocracy And Oligarchy -- Introduction -- 1. The Timocrat (548d6-550c3) -- (a) The Nature And Development Of The Timocrat -- (b) How Common Is The Timocrat? -- 2. The Oligarch (553a3-555b3) -- (a) Reason And The Oligarchic Character -- (b) The Rarity Of The Oligarch -- 6: Irrationality In Republic Viii-ix: Democracy And Tyranny -- The Democrat (558c6-562a3) (a) The Junior Democrat -- (b) The Senior Democrat -- (c) The Democratic Character Reconsidered In Book Ix -- (d) How Common Is The Democrat? -- 2. The Tyrant (571a1-580a8) -- (a) Madness And The Tyrant -- (b) The Tyrant's Regret -- (c) The Rarity Of The Tyrant -- Conclusion -- Interim Conclusions -- 1. Platonic Pessimism Revisited -- 2. The Ideal State -- Part Two Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics -- Introduction To Part Ii: The Target Audience Of The Ne -- 1. The Subject Matter Of The Ne -- 2. The Ne As Political Science -- 3. The Audience -- 4. Upbringing -- 5. Aristotle's Exclusions 6. The Relation Between The Nicomachean Ethics And The Politics -- 7: The Functions Of The Nicomachean Ethics -- 1. Clarification, Conversion, And Reinforcement -- 2. The Discussion Of Pleasure In Ne X -- (a) Protreptic Intent In Ne X 1 -- (b) Protreptic Arguments In Ne X 5-6 -- 3. Self-love In Ne Ix 4 -- 8: Aristotle And Moral Scepticism -- 1. The Function Argument And The Doctrine Of The Mean -- (a) The Function Argument Of Rep. I -- (b) The Function Argument In Ne I 7 -- (c) Ne I 13 -- (d) The Doctrine Of The Mean In Ne Ii 6 -- (e) Aristotle's Intentions -- 2. Moral Scepticism And The Politics Dominic Scott. This Edition Also Issued In Print: 2020. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. Electronic Reproduction. Oxford Available Via World Wide Web.