
Remembering Socrates
Philosophical Essays
Oxford University Press
Published on 13. November 2008
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Paperback/Softback
216 pages
978-0-19-955812-4 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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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A rich collection, the cumulative effect of which... is paradoxically to bring the philosophical personality of Socrates more sharply before our eyes. * Chris Emlyn-Jones, JHS *More details
Language
English
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Oxford
United Kingdom
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Professional and scholarly
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Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
336 gr
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978-0-19-955812-4 (9780199558124)
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Persons
Lindsay Judson is University Lecturer in Philosophy and Tutorial Fellow of Christ Church College, at the University of Oxford
Vassilis Karasmanis is Professor of Philosophy at the National Technical University of Athens
Vassilis Karasmanis is Professor of Philosophy at the National Technical University of Athens
Content
Introduction ; 1. Socrates's dialectic in Xenophon's Memorabilia ; 2. Socratic intellectualism in Xenophon and Plato ; 3. Socrates and hedonism ; 4. Socrates and Euthyphro: the argument and its revival ; 5. Did Socrates agree to obey the law of Athens? ; 6. Aporia and searching in the early Plato ; 7. Types of definition in the Meno ; 8. Definition in Plato's Meno ; 9. Sharing a property ; 10. Socrates the Sophist ; 11. Arcesilaus: Socratic and Sceptic ; 12. The early Christian reception of Socrates