Brill's companion to the reception of Socrates / edited by Christopher Moore.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moore, Christopher, 1981- editor.

Series:

Brill's Companions to Classical Reception 18.

Brill's companion to classical reception, 2213-1426 ; volume 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Socrates.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1,027 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

Summary:

Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Socrates , edited by Christopher Moore, provides almost unbroken coverage, across three-dozen studies, of 2450 years of philosophical and literary engagement with Socrates – the singular Athenian intellectual, paradigm of moral discipline, and inspiration for millennia of philosophical, rhetorical, and dramatic composition. Following an Introduction reflecting on the essentially “receptive” nature of Socrates’ influence (by contrast to Plato’s), chapters address the uptake of Socrates by authors in the Classical, Hellenistic, Roman, Late Antique (including Latin Christian, Syriac, and Arabic), Medieval (including Byzantine), Renaissance, Early Modern, Late Modern, and Twentieth-Century periods. Together they reveal the continuity of Socrates’ idiosyncratic, polyvalent, and deep imprint on the history of Western thought, and witness the value of further research in the reception of Socrates.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright page

Abbreviations

Contributors

Socrates’ Writing as Writings about Socrates / Christopher Moore

Living Reception

Greek Tragedy and the Socratic Tradition / Jacques A. Bromberg

Socrates in Early Fourth-Century Rhetoric: Polycrates, Lysias, Isocrates, and Pseudo-Andocides / David J. Murphy

Plato’s Reception of Socrates: One Aspect / Sandra Peterson

Antisthenes’ Portrayal of Socrates / Menahem Luz

Xenophon’s Socrates and the Socratic Xenophon / David Johnson

Greek Philosophy

Socrates in Aristotle’s History of Philosophy / Christopher Moore

What Is Socratic about the Pseudo-Platonica? / Mark Joyal

Epicurus and the Epicureans on Socrates and the Socratics / F. Javier Campos-Daroca

The Syncretic Socrates of Epictetus / Brian Earl Johnson

Socratic Themes in the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius / John Sellars

Plutarch’s Primary Use of the Socratic Paradigm in the Lives / Mark Beck

Socratic Methods in Damascius / Damian Caluori

Roman Writers

Cicero and Socrates / Sean McConnell

Socrates in Roman Satire / Cedric Littlewood

The Rhetoric of Socrates in Quintilian’s Institutio Oratoria / Curtis Dozier

Socrates in Aulus Gellius / Leofranc Holford-Strevens

Late Antiquity and the Medieval Period

The Reception of Socrates in Tertullian / Juraj Franek

Socrates in Stobaeus: Assembling a Philosopher / Susan Prince

Syriac Reception of Socrates / Ute Pietruschka

Socrates in the Arabic Tradition: An Esteemed Monotheist with Moist Blue Eyes / Elvira Wakelnig

Socrates, “Princeps Stoicorum,” in Albert the Great’s Middle Ages / Nadia Bray

Socrates in Byzantium / Michele Trizio

Early Modern Europe

Manetti’s Socrates and the Socrateses of Antiquity / James Hankins

Writing Montaigne’s Socrates with Diogenes Laertius and Plutarch / Alison Calhoun

Socrates and Religious Debate in the Scottish Enlightenment / Felicity P. Loughlin

The Nineteenth Century

Socrates in the Early Nineteenth Century, Become Young and Beautiful / Hayden W. Ausland

Astonished Thought: Friedrich Schlegel’s Appropriation of Socratic Irony / Samuel Frederick

Hegel on Socrates and the Historical Advent of Moral Self-Consciousness / Brady Bowman

The Mills / Antis Loizides

Kierkegaard’s Socratic Way of Writing / David Schur and Lori Yamato

Nietzsche’s Revaluation of Socrates / Christopher C. Raymond

The Twentieth Century

Wittgenstein’s Reception of Socrates / Oskari Kuusela

Leo Strauss’ Socrates and the Possibility of Philosophy in Our Time / Dolores Amat

“Sacrifice a Cock to Asclepius”: The Reception of Socrates in Foucault’s Final Writings / Leonard Lawlor

Socratic Voices in Derrida’s Writing / Karel Thein

Socrates, Vlastos, and Analytic Philosophy / David Conan Wolfsdorf

Back Matter

Index of Persons.

ISBN:

90-04-39675-6

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004396753 DOI