Descent of Socrates : self-knowledge and cryptic nature in the Platonic dialogues / Peter Warnek.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Warnek, Peter A., 1962-

Series:

Studies in Continental thought.

Studies in Continental thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Socrates.

Plato. Dialogues.

Plato.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 Descent of Socrates, Peter Warnek offers 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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-228) and index.

ISBN:

9786612072529

1-282-07252-8

0-253-11151-X

OCLC:

475995050