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Author | : Sandra Peterson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2011-03-10 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1139497979 |
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In Plato's Apology, Socrates says he spent his life examining and questioning people on how best to live, while avowing that he himself knows nothing important. Elsewhere, however, for example in Plato's Republic, Plato's Socrates presents radical and grandiose theses. In this book Sandra Peterson offers a hypothesis which explains the puzzle of Socrates' two contrasting manners. She argues that the apparently confident doctrinal Socrates is in fact conducting the first step of an examination: by eliciting his interlocutors' reactions, his apparently doctrinal lectures reveal what his interlocutors believe is the best way to live. She tests her hypothesis by close reading of passages in the Theaetetus, Republic and Phaedo. Her provocative conclusion, that there is a single Socrates whose conception and practice of philosophy remain the same throughout the dialogues, will be of interest to a wide range of readers in ancient philosophy and classics.
Author | : Charles H. Kahn |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 1997-01-09 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521433259 |
Download Plato and the Socratic Dialogue Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book offers a new interpretation of Plato's early and middle dialogues as the expression of a unified philosophical vision. Whereas the traditional view sees the dialogues as marking successive stages in Plato's philosophical development, we may more legitimately read them as reflecting an artistic plan for the gradual, indirect and partial exposition of Platonic philosophy. The magnificent literary achievement of the dialogues can be fully appreciated only from the viewpoint of a unitarian reading of the philosophical content.
Author | : Emlyn-Jones Chris |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2005-06-30 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0141914076 |
Download Early Socratic Dialogues Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Rich in drama and humour, they include the controversial Ion, a debate on poetic inspiration; Laches, in which Socrates seeks to define bravery; and Euthydemus, which considers the relationship between philosophy and politics. Together, these dialogues provide a definitive portrait of the real Socrates and raise issues still keenly debated by philosophers, forming an incisive overview of Plato's philosophy.
Author | : Plato |
Publisher | : The Floating Press |
Total Pages | : 720 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1775413667 |
Download The Republic Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Republic is Plato's most famous work and one of the seminal texts of Western philosophy and politics. The characters in this Socratic dialogue - including Socrates himself - discuss whether the just or unjust man is happier. They are the philosopher-kings of imagined cities and they also discuss the nature of philosophy and the soul among other things.
Author | : Catherine H. Zuckert |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 898 |
Release | : 2009-08-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0226993388 |
Download Plato's Philosophers Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Faced with the difficult task of discerning Plato’s true ideas from the contradictory voices he used to express them, scholars have never fully made sense of the many incompatibilities within and between the dialogues. In the magisterial Plato’s Philosophers, Catherine Zuckert explains for the first time how these prose dramas cohere to reveal a comprehensive Platonic understanding of philosophy. To expose this coherence, Zuckert examines the dialogues not in their supposed order of composition but according to the dramatic order in which Plato indicates they took place. This unconventional arrangement lays bare a narrative of the rise, development, and limitations of Socratic philosophy. In the drama’s earliest dialogues, for example, non-Socratic philosophers introduce the political and philosophical problems to which Socrates tries to respond. A second dramatic group shows how Socrates develops his distinctive philosophical style. And, finally, the later dialogues feature interlocutors who reveal his philosophy’s limitations. Despite these limitations, Zuckert concludes, Plato made Socrates the dialogues’ central figure because Socrates raises the fundamental human question: what is the best way to live? Plato’s dramatization of Socratic imperfections suggests, moreover, that he recognized the apparently unbridgeable gap between our understandings of human life and the nonhuman world. At a time when this gap continues to raise questions—about the division between sciences and the humanities and the potentially dehumanizing effects of scientific progress—Zuckert’s brilliant interpretation of the entire Platonic corpus offers genuinely new insights into worlds past and present.
Author | : Sean D. Kirkland |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2012-10-11 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1438444052 |
Download The Ontology of Socratic Questioning in Plato's Early Dialogues Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Winner of the 2013 Symposium Book Award, presented by the Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy Modern interpreters of Plato's Socrates have generally taken the dialogues to be aimed at working out objective truth. Attending closely to the texts of the early dialogues and the question of virtue in particular, Sean D. Kirkland suggests that this approach is flawed—that such concern with discovering external facts rests on modern assumptions that would have been far from the minds of Socrates and his contemporaries. This isn't, however, to accuse Socrates of any kind of relativism. Through careful analysis of the original Greek and of a range of competing strands of Plato scholarship, Kirkland instead brings to light a radical, proto-phenomenological Socrates, for whom "what virtue is" is what has always already appeared as virtuous in everyday experience of the world, even if initial appearances are unsatisfactory or obscure and in need of greater scrutiny and clarification.
Author | : Plato |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Philosophy, Ancient |
ISBN | : |
Download The Dialogues of Plato Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
At head of title: New national edition. I. The Republic, introduction and analysis.--II. The Republic.--III. The trial and death of Socrates.--IV. Charmides and other dialogues, Selections from the Laws.
Author | : Alessandro Stavru |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 941 |
Release | : 2017-11-20 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9004341226 |
Download Socrates and the Socratic Dialogue Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Socrates and the Socratic Dialogue provides the most complete study of the immediate literary reaction to Socrates, by his contemporaries and the first-generation Socratics, and of the writings from Aristotle to Proclus addressing Socrates and the literary work he inspired.
Author | : Elizabeth S. Belfiore |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2012-03-08 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1107378230 |
Download Socrates' Daimonic Art Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Despite increasing interest in the figure of Socrates and in love in ancient Greece, no recent monograph studies these topics in all four of Plato's dialogues on love and friendship. This book provides important new insights into these subjects by examining Plato's characterization of Socrates in Symposium, Phaedrus, Lysis and the often neglected Alcibiades I. It focuses on the specific ways in which the philosopher searches for wisdom together with his young interlocutors, using an art that is 'erotic', not in a narrowly sexual sense, but because it shares characteristics attributed to the daimon Eros in Symposium. In all four dialogues, Socrates' art enables him, like Eros, to search for the beauty and wisdom he recognizes that he lacks and to help others seek these same objects of erôs. Belfiore examines the dialogues as both philosophical and dramatic works, and considers many connections with Greek culture, including poetry and theater.
Author | : Vasilis Politis |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2015-05-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107068118 |
Download The Structure of Enquiry in Plato's Early Dialogues Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Offers an alternative interpretation and defends a radically new view of Plato's method of argument in the early dialogues.