1. See Walsh, ‘The Socratic Denial of Akrasia’, in Vlastos (Socrates 1971), and Vlastos (1981), pp. 416–17. Aristotle, Niamachean Ethics VII, 2–3, contains criticism of Socrates’position.

2. cf. Meno 97a ff., Timaeus 51e.

3. That this aim is in principle misguided is one of Aristotle’s central criticisms of Socratic moral philosophy: see Gulley, pp. 1 ff., 126 ff.