The Cambridge Companion to Socrates

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-521-83342-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 440 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 858 g

Reihe: Cambridge Companions to Philosophy

The Cambridge Companion to Socrates is a collection of essays providing a comprehensive guide to Socrates, the most famous Greek philosopher. Because Socrates himself wrote nothing, our evidence comes from the writings of his friends (above all Plato), his enemies, and later writers. Socrates is thus a literary figure as well as a historical person. Both aspects of Socrates' legacy are covered in this volume. Socrates' character is full of paradox, and so are his philosophical views. These paradoxes have led to deep differences in scholars' interpretations of Socrates and his thought. Mirroring this wide range of thought about Socrates, this volume's contributors are unusually diverse in their background and perspective. The essays in this volume were authored by classical philologists, philosophers and historians from Germany, Francophone Canada, Britain and the United States, and they represent a range of interpretive and philosophical traditions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Morrison, Donald

Morrison, Donald R.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The rise and fall of the Socratic problem Louis-André Dorion; 2. The students of Socrates Klaus Döring; 3. Xenophon and the enviable life of Socrates David K. O'Connor; 4. Socrates in Aristophanes' Clouds David Konstan; 5. Socrates and the new learning Paul Woodruff; 6. Socratic religion Mark L. McPherran; 7. Socrates and democratic Athens Josiah Ober; 8. Socratic method Hugh H. Benson; 9. Self-examination Christopher Rowe; 10. Socratic ignorance Richard Bett; 11. Reconsidering Socratic irony Melissa Lane; 12. Socratic ethics and the Socratic psychology of action: a philosophical framework Terry Penner; 13. Socrates and Eudaimonia Christopher Bobonich; 14. Socrates' political philosophy Charles L. Griswold; 15. Socrates in later Greek philosophy A. A. Long.

Über Autor(innen)

Morrison, Donald
Donald R. Morrison is currently a Professor of Philosophy and Classical Studies at Rice University. He has also been a Rockefeller Fellow at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, a Junior Fellow of the Center for Hellenic Studies, and a Visiting Professor at the University Paris I-Sorbonne. His publications have appeared in edited collections and scholarly journals, including Polis, Ancient Philosophy, and the History of Political Thought.