Socrates
Ironist and Moral Philosopher
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 11 April 1991
- ISBN 9780521314503
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages348 pages
- Size 229x152x23 mm
- Weight 560 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This long-awaited study of the most enigmatic figure of Greek philosophy reclaims Socrates' originality.
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This long-awaited study of the most enigmatic figure of Greek philosophy reclaims Socrates' ground-breaking originality. Written by a leading historian of Greek thought, it argues for a Socrates who, though long overshadowed by his successors Plato and Aristotle, marked the true turning point in Greek philosophy, religion and ethics. The quest for the historical figure focuses on the Socrates of Plato's earlier dialogues, setting him in sharp contrast to that other Socrates of later dialogues, where he is used as a mouthpiece for Plato's often anti-Socratic doctrine. At the heart of the book is the paradoxical nature of Socratic thought. But the paradoxes are explained, not explained away. The book highlights the tensions in the Socratic search for the answer to the question 'How should we live?' Conceived as a divine mandate, the search is carried out through elenctic argument, and dominated by an uncompromising rationalism. The magnetic quality of Socrates' personality is allowed to emerge throughout the book. Clearly and forcefully written, philosophically sophisticated but entirely accessible to non-specialists, this book will be of major importance and interest to all those studying ancient philosophy and the history of Western thought.
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List of additional notes; Introduction; 1. Socratic irony; 2. Socrates contra Socrates in Plato; 3. The evidence of Aristotle and Xenophon; 4. Elenchus and mathematics; 5. Does Socrates cheat?; 6. Socratic piety; 7. Socrates' rejection of retaliation; 8. Happiness and virtue in Socrates' moral theory; Epilogue: Felix Socrates; Additional notes; Bibliography; Index of passages cited; Index of names in Plato and Xenophon; Index of modern scholars; Index of Greek words.
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