pt. 1. Tragedy : fragility and ambition
ch. 2. Aeschylus and practical conflict
ch. 3. Sophocles' Antigone : conflict, vision, and simplification
pt. 2. Plato : goodness without fragility?
ch. 4. The Protagoras : a science of practical reasoning
Interlude 1 : Plato's anti-tragic theater
ch. 5. The Republic : true value and the standpoint of perfection
ch. 6. The speech of Alcibiades : a reading of the Symposium
ch. 7. 'This story isn't true' : madness, reason, and recantation in the Phaedrus
pt. 3. Aristotle : the fragility of the good human life
ch. 8. Saving Aristotle's appearances
ch. 9. Rational animals and the explanation of action
ch. 10. Non-scientific deliberation
ch. 11. The vulnerability of the good human life : activity and disaster
ch. 12. The vulnerability of the good human life : relational goods
Interlude 2 : luck and the tragic emotions
ch. 13. The betrayal of convention : a reading of Euripides' Hecuba.
