Descent of Socrates: self-knowledge and cryptic nature in the Platonic dialogues
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Main Author: Warnek, Peter A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington Indiana University Press c2005
Series:Studies in Continental thought
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Reading Plato with a difference : Socrates, beautiful, and new -- Socrates and the retreat of nature : suffering a simple teacher of ethics -- The purest thinker of the West and the older accusations in the Apology -- The good, the bad, and the ugly : nature, rhetoric, and refutation in the Gorgias -- Silenic wisdom in the Apology and Phaedo -- Teiresias in Athens : Socrates as educator in the Meno -- Typhonic eros and the place of the Phaedrus -- Truth and friendship
Since the appearance of Plato's dialogues, philosophers have been preoccupied with the identity of Socrates and have maintained that successful interpretation of the work hinges upon a clear understanding of what thoughts and ideas can be attributed to him. In this volume, Peter Warnek offer a new interpretation of Plato by considering the appearance of Socrates within Plato's work as a philosophical question. Warnek reads the dialogues as an inquiry into the nature of Socrates and in doing so opens up the relationship between humankind and the natural world. The author reveals the importan
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xix, 234 p.)
ISBN:025311151X
9780253111517

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