 Sections 2 through 9 concern philosophical themes that are common to the works under discussion. Section 10 deals with the intellectual world that Plato uses as a backdrop for these dialogues. Sections 11 to 20 deal with the individual dialogues of the group. The views of this Socrates are hard to make out with certainty because he often speaks in questions, and when he makes statemens they may be strategic elements in a refutaion and not his true views. Scholars therefore have been engaged in many controversies about his views. For details on these, see companion volumes such as Rappe, and Kamtekar (2005), Morrison (2011), Bussanich and Smith (2013), and Jones and Smith (2023). 