Early Socratic Dialogues

Author : Emlyn-Jones Chris,Plato
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780141914077

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Early Socratic Dialogues by Emlyn-Jones Chris,Plato Pdf

Rich in drama and humour, they include the controversial Ion, a debate on poetic inspiration; Laches, in which Socrates seeks to define bravery; and Euthydemus, which considers the relationship between philosophy and politics. Together, these dialogues provide a definitive portrait of the real Socrates and raise issues still keenly debated by philosophers, forming an incisive overview of Plato's philosophy.

Author : Charles H. Kahn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1997-01-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521433258

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Plato and the Socratic Dialogue by Charles H. Kahn Pdf

This book offers a new interpretation of Plato's early and middle dialogues as the expression of a unified philosophical vision. Whereas the traditional view sees the dialogues as marking successive stages in Plato's philosophical development, we may more legitimately read them as reflecting an artistic plan for the gradual, indirect and partial exposition of Platonic philosophy. The magnificent literary achievement of the dialogues can be fully appreciated only from the viewpoint of a unitarian reading of the philosophical content.

Author : Vasilis Politis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107068117

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The Structure of Enquiry in Plato's Early Dialogues by Vasilis Politis Pdf

Offers an alternative interpretation and defends a radically new view of Plato's method of argument in the early dialogues.

Author : Sean D. Kirkland
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438444055

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The Ontology of Socratic Questioning in Plato's Early Dialogues by Sean D. Kirkland Pdf

Winner of the 2013 Symposium Book Award, presented by the Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy Modern interpreters of Plato's Socrates have generally taken the dialogues to be aimed at working out objective truth. Attending closely to the texts of the early dialogues and the question of virtue in particular, Sean D. Kirkland suggests that this approach is flawed—that such concern with discovering external facts rests on modern assumptions that would have been far from the minds of Socrates and his contemporaries. This isn't, however, to accuse Socrates of any kind of relativism. Through careful analysis of the original Greek and of a range of competing strands of Plato scholarship, Kirkland instead brings to light a radical, proto-phenomenological Socrates, for whom "what virtue is" is what has always already appeared as virtuous in everyday experience of the world, even if initial appearances are unsatisfactory or obscure and in need of greater scrutiny and clarification.

Author : Sandra Peterson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139497978

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Socrates and Philosophy in the Dialogues of Plato by Sandra Peterson Pdf

In Plato's Apology, Socrates says he spent his life examining and questioning people on how best to live, while avowing that he himself knows nothing important. Elsewhere, however, for example in Plato's Republic, Plato's Socrates presents radical and grandiose theses. In this book Sandra Peterson offers a hypothesis which explains the puzzle of Socrates' two contrasting manners. She argues that the apparently confident doctrinal Socrates is in fact conducting the first step of an examination: by eliciting his interlocutors' reactions, his apparently doctrinal lectures reveal what his interlocutors believe is the best way to live. She tests her hypothesis by close reading of passages in the Theaetetus, Republic and Phaedo. Her provocative conclusion, that there is a single Socrates whose conception and practice of philosophy remain the same throughout the dialogues, will be of interest to a wide range of readers in ancient philosophy and classics.

Author : John Beversluis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2000-01-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521550580

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Cross-Examining Socrates by John Beversluis Pdf

This book is a rereading of Plato's early dialogues from the point of view of the characters with whom Socrates engages in debate. Socrates' interlocutors are generally acknowledged to play important dialectical and dramatic roles, but no previous book has focused mainly on them. Existing studies are thoroughly dismissive of the interlocutors and reduce them to the status of mere mouthpieces for views which are hopelessly confused or demonstrably false. This book takes interlocutors seriously and treats them as genuine intellectual opponents whose views are often more defensible than commentators have standardly thought. The author's purpose is not to summarise their positions or the arguments of the dialogues in which they appear, much less to produce a series of biographical sketches, but to investigate the phenomenology of philosophical disputation as it manifests itself in the early dialogues.

Author : Plato
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005-12-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780140455038

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Early Socratic Dialogues by Plato Pdf

Rich in drama and humour, the Early Socratic Dialogues include the controversial Ion, a debate on poetic inspiration; Laches, in which Socrates seeks to define bravery; and Euthydemus, which considers the relationship between philosophy and politics. Together, these dialogues provide a definitive portrait of the real Socrates and raise issues still keenly debated by philosophers, forming an incisive overview of Plato's philosophy. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Alessandro Stavru,Christopher Moore
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 941 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004341227

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Socrates and the Socratic Dialogue by Alessandro Stavru,Christopher Moore Pdf

Socrates and the Socratic Dialogue provides the most complete study of the immediate literary reaction to Socrates, by his contemporaries and the first-generation Socratics, and of the writings from Aristotle to Proclus addressing Socrates and the literary work he inspired.

Author : Plato
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780307423610

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Selected Dialogues of Plato by Plato Pdf

Benjamin Jowett's translations of Plato have long been classics in their own right. In this volume, Professor Hayden Pelliccia has revised Jowett's renderings of five key dialogues, giving us a modern Plato faithful to both Jowett's best features and Plato's own masterly style. Gathered here are many of Plato's liveliest and richest texts. Ion takes up the question of poetry and introduces the Socratic method. Protagoras discusses poetic interpretation and shows why cross-examination is the best way to get at the truth. Phaedrus takes on the nature of rhetoric, psychology, and love, as does the famous Symposium. Finally, Apology gives us Socrates' art of persuasion put to the ultimate test--defending his own life. Pelliccia's new Introduction to this volume clarifies its contents and addresses the challenges of translating Plato freshly and accurately. In its combination of accessibility and depth, Selected Dialogues of Plato is the ideal introduction to one of the key thinkers of all time.

Author : Plato
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0760762007

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The Trial and Death of Socrates by Plato Pdf

"The European philosophical tradition. . .consists of a series of footnotes to Plato." -- Alfred North Whitehead The dialogues of Plato stand alongside the Bible and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey as foundational texts of Western civilization. The works of Plato collected under the title The Trial and Death of Socrates have been particularly influential. This is because they provide both an excellent point of entry into Plato's vast philosophy and a vivid portrait of Plato's mentor, Socrates - one of the most uncompromising intellectuals in the pantheon of human history. It is predominantly through Plato's account in these works of the words and actions of Socrates during his trial and execution for impiety that the latter's nobility and profound integrity have become known to succeeding generations.

Author : Plato
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : OXFORD:503173854

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The Dialogues of Plato by Plato Pdf

Author : Plato,Iain Lane,Donald Watt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:879234007

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Early Socratic Dialogues by Plato,Iain Lane,Donald Watt Pdf

Author : Xenophon
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004-02-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780141915449

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Conversations of Socrates by Xenophon Pdf

After the execution of Socrates in 399 BC, a number of his followers wrote dialogues featuring him as the protagonist and, in so doing, transformed the great philosopher into a legendary figure. Xenophon's portrait is the only one other than Plato's to survive, and while it offers a very personal interpretation of Socratic thought, it also reveals much about the man and his philosophical views. In 'Socrates' Defence' Xenophon defends his mentor against charges of arrogance made at his trial, while the 'Memoirs of Socrates' also starts with an impassioned plea for the rehabilitation of a wronged reputation. Along with 'The Estate-Manager', a practical economic treatise, and 'The Dinner-Party', a sparkling exploration of love, Xenophon's dialogues offer fascinating insights into the Socratic world and into the intellectual atmosphere and daily life of ancient Greece.

Author : Plato
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781554812585

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The Apology and Related Dialogues by Plato Pdf

Socrates, one of the first of the great philosophers, left no written works. What survives of his thought are second-hand descriptions of his teachings and conversations—including, most famously, the accounts of his trial and execution composed by his friend, student, and philosophical successor, Plato. In Euthyphro, Socrates examines the concept of piety and displays his propensity for questioning Athenian authorities. Such audacity is not without consequence, and in the Apology we find Socrates defending himself in court against charges of impiety and corruption of the youth. Crito depicts Socrates choosing to accept the resulting death sentence rather than escape Athens and avoid execution. All three dialogues are included here, as is the final scene of Phaedo, in which the sentence is carried out.

Author : Plato
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8793494610

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Socratic Dialogues by Plato Pdf