Part 1 On Plato's dialectic: conversation and the way we come to shared understanding - the idea of science, conversation and logos, the motives of a concern for the facts of the matter in a shared world (logos and dialectic), degenerate forms of speech, the Socratic dialogue; Plato's dialectic and the motive of coming to an understanding - the dialectic of the Phaedo and the Republic, the theory of dialecti in the Phaedrus, dialectic's ontological presuppositions (the Sophist and the Parmenides). Part 2 Interpretations of the Philebus: the structure of Philebus - interpretations of Philebus, the topic of conversation, making sure of the method, the excursus of dialectic; the new posing of the question - the more precise formulation of the topic, the doctrine of the four kinds, the application of this docrine to the question; investigation of the kinds of pleasure - corporeal pleasure and psychic pleasure, desire and anticipatory enjoyment, False pleasure as groundless hope, False pleasure as exaggerated and imagined anticipatory enjoyment, mixed pleasure as False pleasure (forgetfulness directed at displeasure), unmixed pleasure as enjoyment of what is enjoyable, the doctrine of science; the settling of the question (the good in human life). Appendix: Analytical table of contents (1931 edition).
