Remembering Socrates : philosophical essays / edited by Lindsay Judson and Vassilis Karasmanis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Judson, Lindsay.

Karasmanis, Vassilis.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Socrates.

Physical Description:

viii, 207 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Summary:

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's thought 2,400 years after his death. The topics of the papers include Socratic method; the notion of definition; Socrates's intellectualist conception of ethics; famous arguments in the Euthyphro and Crito; 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. Contributors include Lesley Brown, David Charles, John Cooper, Michael Frede, Terence Irwin, Charles Kahn, Vassilis Karasmanis, Carlo Natali, Vasilis Politis, Dory Scaltsas, Gerhard Seel, and C. C. W. Taylor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0199276137

OCLC:

61424803

Publisher Number:

9780199276134