How Socrates became Socrates : a study of Plato's Phaedo, Parmenides, and Symposium / Laurence Lampert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lampert, Laurence, author.

Series:

Chicago scholarship online.

Chicago scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Socrates.

Plato. Phaedo.

Plato.

Plato. Parmenides.

Plato. Symposium.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (270 pages)

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Illinois ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2021]

Summary:

Plato dispersed his account of how Socrates became Socrates across three dialogues. Thus, Plato rendered his becoming discoverable only to readers truly invested. Laurence Lampert recognises the path of Plato's strides and guides us through the true account of Socrates' becoming. He divulges how and why Plato ordered his Phaedo, Parmenides, and Symposium chronologically to give readers access to Socrates' development on philosophy's fundamental questions of being and knowing. In addition to a careful and precise analysis of Plato's Phaedo, Parmenides, and Symposium, Lampert shows that properly entwined, Plato's three dialogues fuse to portray a young thinker entering philosophy's true radical power. Lampert reveals why this radicality needed to be guarded and places this discussion within the greater scheme of the politics of philosophy.

Contents:

Introduction

1. Phaedo : The First Stage of Socrates' Philosophic Education. Prologue : Heroic Socrates as the New Ideal ; First Words ; A New Theseus to Slay the Real Minotaur ; A New Herakles to Cut Off and Bury the Immortal Head of Hydra ; A New Odysseus to Teach the Safe Way to Understand Cause ; Odyssean Socrates' Report on His Second Sailing in the Phaedo Measured by the Parmenides ; Odyssean Socrates Ends His Life of Argument ; Socrates' Last Words: Gratitude for a Healing

2. Parmenides : The Second Stage of Socrates' Philosophic Education. Prologue : A Socrates for the Philosophically Driven ; First Words ; At Pythodorus's House during the Great Panathenaia ; Socrates and Zeno : How to Read a Philosophic Writing ; Socrates' Solution to What Parmenides and Zeno Made to Seem beyond Us ; Parmenides the Guide ; What Is This Gymnastic? ; Guiding Socrates ; Last Words ; The Socratic Turn

3. The Symposium : The Final Stage of Socrates' Philosophic Education. Prologue : Socrates' Ontological Psychology ; First Words ; Socrates Beautifies Himself for Agathon ; Diotima's Myth Guides Socrates to the Third Stage of His Philosophic Education ; Diotima's Logos Guides Socrates to the Third Stage of His Philosophic Education ; Diotima Teaches Socrates What to Teach ; Alcibiades Arrives ; Last Words

Note on the Dramatic Date of the Frame of the Symposium

Conclusion: Plato in a Nietzschean History of Philosophy.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 13, 2021).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780226746470

022674647X

OCLC:

1237408554