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A Method for Pleasure and Reason: Plato's Philebus

Scholars are drawn to the Philebus for different reasons. As one of Plato's late dialogues, its views are relevant in evaluating final developments in Plato's philosophy. The Philebus is also of interest to those who write on the unwritten doctrines of Plato reported by Aristotle and others; they believe that their interpretations of those doctrines can be found in, or at least are not contradicted by, discussions in the Philebus (most notably the passage on the four kinds [23-7] but also the passage on the method [16-18]). Others turn to the Philebus to understand the whole of the dialogue or topics within the dialogue simply in terms of the dialogue itself. This paper takes the last approach. Its topic is the philosophical method (hodos), and it seeks to explain the role of the method in the Philebus. A comprehensive interpretation of the method needs to answer the following four questions. It needs to explain why Plato introduces the method into the discussion. It needs to explain what kind of method