Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 493 g
Philosophical Essays
Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 493 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-927613-4
Verlag: OUP Oxford
Lindsay Judson and Vassilis Karasmanis present a selection of philosophical papers by an outstanding international team of scholars, assessing the legacy and continuing relevance of Socrates' thought 2,400 years after his death. Socrates' life, philosophical activity, and death not only had a formative effect on his follower Plato, and thus indirectly on almost the whole course of Greek philosophy, but also represented a moral and philosophical ideal which has been the inspiration, or the despair, of many philosophers and other thinkers down to the present day.
The topics of the papers include Socratic method as portrayed by Plato and by Xenophon; the notion of definition; Socrates' intellectualist conception of ethics; famous arguments in the Euthyphro and Crito, and a not-so famous argument in the Hippias Major; and aspects of the later portrayal and reception of Socrates as a philosophical and ethical exemplar - by Plato, the Sceptics, and in the early Christian era. The collection demonstrates the vitality as well as the diversity of Socratic studies, and will interest many ancient philosophers, historians of philosophy, and classicists.
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Scholars and students of ancient philosophy, classicists
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- Introduction
- 1: Carlo Natali: Socrates's dialectic in Xenophon's Memorabilia
- 2: Gerhard Seel: Socratic intellectualism in Xenophon and Plato
- 3: Charles Kahn: Socrates and hedonism
- 4: Terence Irwin: Socrates and Euthyphro: the argument and its revival
- 5: Lesley Brown: Did Socrates agree to obey the law of Athens?
- 6: Vasilis Politis: Aporia and searching in the early Plato
- 7: David Charles: Types of definition in the Meno
- 8: Vassilis Karasmanis: Definition in Plato's Meno
- 9: Dory Scaltsas: Sharing a property
- 10: Christopher Taylor: Socrates the Sophist
- 11: John Cooper: Arcesilaus: Socratic and Sceptic
- 12: Michael Frede: The early Christian reception of Socrates
