Socrates : a guide for the perplexed / Sara Ahbel-Rappe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ahbel-Rappe, Sara, 1960-

Series:

Guides for the perplexed.

Guides for the perplexed

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Socrates.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (196 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, c2009.

Summary:

Socrates is regarded as the founder of Western philosophical inquiry. Yet he left no writings and claimed to know 'nothing fine or worthy'. He spent his life perplexing those who encountered him and is as important and perplexing now as he was 2500 years ago. Drawing on the various competing sources for Socrates that are available to us, Socrates: A Guide for the Perplexed guides the reader through the main themes and ideas of Socrates' thought. Taking into account the puzzles surrounding his trial and death, the philosophical methods and ethical positions associated with Socrates, and his las

Contents:

Socrates : the man and the myth

The life and death of Socrates

The sources for Socrates

Plato's Socrates

Socratic method and epistemology

Happiness and virtue

The Socratic schools

Socrates in the modern world

Citizen Socrates

Conclusion : Socrates and self-knowledge.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612870651

9781282870659

1282870653

9780826438645

0826438644

OCLC:

676697081