Socrates And Philosophy In The Dialogues Of Plato

Author : Sandra Peterson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 45,7 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 : Charles H. Kahn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 48,9 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 : Emlyn-Jones Chris,Plato
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,6 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 : Plato
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1788283082

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Dialogues of Socrates by Plato Pdf

Author : Alessandro Stavru,Christopher Moore
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 941 pages
File Size : 45,6 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 : The Floating Press
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781775413660

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The Republic by Plato Pdf

The Republic is Plato's most famous work and one of the seminal texts of Western philosophy and politics. The characters in this Socratic dialogue - including Socrates himself - discuss whether the just or unjust man is happier. They are the philosopher-kings of imagined cities and they also discuss the nature of philosophy and the soul among other things.

Author : Catherine H. Zuckert
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 898 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226993386

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Plato's Philosophers by Catherine H. Zuckert Pdf

Faced with the difficult task of discerning Plato’s true ideas from the contradictory voices he used to express them, scholars have never fully made sense of the many incompatibilities within and between the dialogues. In the magisterial Plato’s Philosophers, Catherine Zuckert explains for the first time how these prose dramas cohere to reveal a comprehensive Platonic understanding of philosophy. To expose this coherence, Zuckert examines the dialogues not in their supposed order of composition but according to the dramatic order in which Plato indicates they took place. This unconventional arrangement lays bare a narrative of the rise, development, and limitations of Socratic philosophy. In the drama’s earliest dialogues, for example, non-Socratic philosophers introduce the political and philosophical problems to which Socrates tries to respond. A second dramatic group shows how Socrates develops his distinctive philosophical style. And, finally, the later dialogues feature interlocutors who reveal his philosophy’s limitations. Despite these limitations, Zuckert concludes, Plato made Socrates the dialogues’ central figure because Socrates raises the fundamental human question: what is the best way to live? Plato’s dramatization of Socratic imperfections suggests, moreover, that he recognized the apparently unbridgeable gap between our understandings of human life and the nonhuman world. At a time when this gap continues to raise questions—about the division between sciences and the humanities and the potentially dehumanizing effects of scientific progress—Zuckert’s brilliant interpretation of the entire Platonic corpus offers genuinely new insights into worlds past and present.

Author : Sandra Peterson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139009958

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

"The Socrates of some of Plato's dialogues is the avowedly ignorant figure of the Apology who knows nothing important and who gave his life to examining himself and others. In contrast, the Socrates of other dialogues such as the Republic and Phaedo gives confident lectures on topics of which the examining Socrates of the Apology professed ignorance. It is a longstanding puzzle why Socrates acts so differently in different dialogues. To explain the two different manners of Socrates a current widely accepted interpretation of Plato's dialogues offers this two-part, Platocentered, hypothesis: (i) the character Socrates, of the dialogues is always Plato's device for presenting Plato's own views; and (ii) Plato had different views at different times. The Socrates who confidently lectures presents these famous four doctrines: Plato's blueprint for the best state, Plato's "Theory of Forms," Plato's view that philosophy is the knowledge of those Forms that fits the knower for the highest government stations, and Plato's arguments for the immortality of the soul"--

Author : Gerasimos Xenophon Santas
Publisher : Routledge & Kegan Paul Books
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Philosophy, Ancient
ISBN : UCAL:B4240111

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Socrates, Philosophy in Plato's Early Dialogues by Gerasimos Xenophon Santas Pdf

Author : Plato
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780486111346

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The Trial and Death of Socrates by Plato Pdf

Among the most important and influential philosophical works in Western thought: the dialogues entitled Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo. Translations by distinguished classical scholar Benjamin Jowett.

Author : Plato
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0300077297

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The Dialogues of Plato, Volume 4 by Plato Pdf

Among Plato's later dialogues, the Parmenides is one of the most significant. Not only a document of profound philosophical importance in its own right, it also contributes to the understanding of Platonic dialogues that followed it, and it exhibits the foundations of the physics and ontology that Aristotle offered in his Physics and Metaphysics VII.

Author : Sean D. Kirkland
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,8 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 : Plato
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Philosophers, Ancient
ISBN : UOM:39015005676369

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The Dialogues of Plato by Plato Pdf

Author : James M. Magrini
Publisher : Springer
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319713564

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Plato’s Socrates, Philosophy and Education by James M. Magrini Pdf

This book develops for the readers Plato’s Socrates’ non-formalized “philosophical practice” of learning-through-questioning in the company of others. In doing so, the writer confronts Plato’s Socrates, in the words of John Dewey, as the “dramatic, restless, cooperatively inquiring philosopher" of the dialogues, whose view of education and learning is unique: (1) It is focused on actively pursuing a form of philosophical understanding irreducible to truth of a propositional nature, which defies “transfer” from practitioner to pupil; (2) It embraces the perennial “on-the-wayness” of education and learning in that to interrogate the virtues, or the “good life,” through the practice of the dialectic, is to continually renew the quest for a deeper understanding of things by returning to, reevaluating and modifying the questions originally posed regarding the “good life.” Indeed Socratic philosophy is a life of questioning those aspects of existence that are most question-worthy; and (3) It accepts that learning is a process guided and structured by dialectic inquiry, and is already immanent within and possible only because of the unfolding of the process itself, i.e., learning is not a goal that somehow stands outside the dialectic as its end product, which indicates erroneously that the method or practice is disposable. For learning occurs only through continued, sustained communal dialogue.

Author : Plato
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : OXFORD:503173854

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The Dialogues of Plato by Plato Pdf