Alexander Nehamas is Edmund N. Carpenter II Class of 1943 Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature at Princeton University. He is the coeditor, with David J. Furley, of "Aristotle's Rhetoric: Philosophical Essays" (1994) and the author, with Paul Woodruff, of a translation and commentary on "Plato's Phaedrus" (1995) and "Symposium" (1989). He is also the author of "Nietzsche: Life as Literature" (1985) and of "Virtues of Authenticity: Essays on Plato and Socrates" (1998).