Socratic Wisdom The Model Of Knowledge In Plato S Early Dialogues

Author : Hugh H. Benson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 298 pages
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Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0195129180

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Socratic Wisdom by Hugh H. Benson Pdf

While the early Platonic dialogues have often been explored and appreciated for their ethical content, this is the first book devoted solely to the epistemology of Plato's early dialogues. Author Hugh H. Benson argues that the characteristic features of these dialogues--Socrates' method of questions and answers (elenchos), his fascination with definition, his professions of ignorance, and his thesis that virtue is knowledge--are decidedly epistemological. In this thoughtful study, Benson uncovers the model of knowledge that underlies these distinctively Socratic views. What emerges is unfamiliar, yet closer to a contemporary conception of scientific understanding than ordinary knowledge.

Author : Hugh H. Benson Professor of Philosophy University of Oklahoma
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199771243

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Socratic Wisdom : The Model of Knowledge in Plato's Early Dialogues by Hugh H. Benson Professor of Philosophy University of Oklahoma Pdf

While the early Platonic dialogues have often been explored and appreciated for their ethical content, this is the first book devoted solely to the epistemology of Plato's early dialogues. Author Hugh H. Benson argues that the characteristic features of these dialogues--Socrates' method of questions and answers (elenchos), his fascination with definition, his professions of ignorance, and his thesis that virtue is knowledge--are decidedly epistemological. In this thoughtful study, Benson uncovers the model of knowledge that underlies these distinctively Socratic views. What emerges is unfamiliar, yet closer to a contemporary conception of scientific understanding than ordinary knowledge.

Author : Charles H. Kahn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 52,9 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 : Sean D. Kirkland
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,6 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 : Sara Ahbel-Rappe
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438469270

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Socratic Ignorance and Platonic Knowledge in the Dialogues of Plato by Sara Ahbel-Rappe Pdf

Argues that Socrates’s fundamental role in the dialogues is to guide us toward self-inquiry and self-knowledge. In this highly original and provocative book, Sara Ahbel-Rappe argues that the Platonic dialogues contain an esoteric Socrates who signifies a profound commitment to self-knowledge and whose appearances in the dialogues are meant to foster the practice of self-inquiry. According to Ahbel-Rappe, the elenchus, or inner examination, and the thesis that virtue is knowledge, are tools for a contemplative practice that teaches us how to investigate the mind and its objects directly. In other words, the Socratic persona of the dialogues represents wisdom, which is distinct from and serves as the larger space in which Platonic knowledge—ethics, epistemology, and metaphysics—is constructed. Ahbel-Rappe offers complete readings of the Apology, Charmides, Alcibiades I, Euthyphro, Lysis, Phaedrus, Theaetetus, and Parmenides, as well as parts of the Republic. Her interpretation challenges two common approaches to the figure of Socrates: the thesis that the dialogues represent an “early” Plato who later disavows his reliance on Socratic wisdom, and the thesis that Socratic ethics can best be expressed by the construct of eudaimonism or egoism.

Author : Gerasimos Xenophon Santas
Publisher : Routledge & Kegan Paul Books
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UCAL:B4240111

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

Author : James M. Ambury,Andy R. German
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Self-knowledge, Theory of
ISBN : 1316635724

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Knowledge and Ignorance of Self in Platonic Philosophy by James M. Ambury,Andy R. German Pdf

"If any evidence were needed of a revived interest in Plato's treatment of self-knowledge and self-ignorance, the bibliography at the back of this volume should be evidence enough. Papers, monographs, and symposia on the topic are increasingly thick on the ground"--

Author : Emlyn-Jones Chris,Plato
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,9 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 : Alessandro Stavru,Christopher Moore
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 941 pages
File Size : 40,8 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 : John Beversluis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 46,5 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 : R E Allen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781136236518

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Plato's Euthyphro and the Earlier Theory of Forms (RLE: Plato) by R E Allen Pdf

Plato’s Euthyphro is important because it gives an excellent example of Socratic dialogue in operation and of the connection of that dialectic with Plato’s earlier theory of Forms. Professor Allen’s edition of the dialogue provides a translation with interspersed commentary, aimed both at helping the reader who does not have Greek and also elucidating the discussion of the earlier Theory of Forms which follows. The author argues that there is a theory of Forms in the Euthyphro and in other early Platonic dialogues and that this theory is the foundation of Socratic dialogue. However, he maintains that the theory in the early dialogues is a realist theory of universals and this theory is not to be identified with the theory of Forms found in the Phaedo, Republic, and other middle dialogues, since it differs on the issues of ontological status.

Author : Sean D. Kirkland
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438444031

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

A provocative close reading revealing a radical, proto-phenomenological Socrates. Modern interpreters of Platos 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 flawedthat such concern with discovering external facts rests on modern assumptions that would have been far from the minds of Socrates and his contemporaries. This isnt, 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 : Gregory Vlastos
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : MINN:319510011479847

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The Philosophy of Socrates by Gregory Vlastos Pdf

The Socrates of Plato's early dialogues is the focus of this collection of essays. Scholars of Socrates discuss the problem of our knowing the historical Socrates, the Socratic method of examining the statements of others, Socratic definition, and the concept of virtue in Socrates' thought. This anthology of essays, some written for this volume and others previously published, offers a cross section of insights and views on Socrates for the beginning student as well as for the professional philosopher.

Author : Thomas C. Brickhouse,Nicholas D. Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0195101111

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Plato's Socrates by Thomas C. Brickhouse,Nicholas D. Smith Pdf

Socrates, as he is portrayed in Plato's early dialogues, remains one of the most controversial figures in the history of philosophy. This book concerns six of the most vexing and often discussed features of Plato's portrayal: Socrates' methodology, epistemology, psychology, ethics, politics, and religion. Brickhouse and Smith cast new light on Plato's early dialogues by providing novel analyses of many of the doctrines and practices for which Socrates is best known. Included are discussions of Socrates' moral method, his profession of ignorance, his denial of akrasia, as well as his views about the relationship between virtue and happiness, the authority of the State, and the epistemic status of his daimonion. By revealing the many interconnections among Socrates' views on a wide variety of topics, this book demonstrates both the richness and the remarkable coherence of the philosophy of Plato's Socrates.

Author : – Plato
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9788726627619

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Plato’s Theaetetus by – Plato Pdf

Perception, memory, truth, and knowledge all play major roles in this dialogue. What is remarkable about Plato’s treatment of those ideas is how contemporary are both the questions and the answers he puts in the mouths of his characters. Socrates is adamant in asserting that he does not know the answers but that his function is simply to help formulate and critically examine the doctrines presented by others. While he was still alive, the great sophist Protagoras was a friend of Theodorus who has subsequently given up abstract philosophical inquiry and now teaches mathematics, astronomy, and logic to young people such as Theaetetus, the most gifted student he has ever encountered. Socrates examines young Theaetetus to determine whether or not what he has learned from Theodorus provides wisdom and truth. The analogies and metaphors that emerge during their conversation foreshadow the theories of mind favored by contemporary cognitive scientists, but Plato’s dialogue also raises serious doubts about the cogency of those explanations. Plato lived in Athens, Greece. He wrote approximately two-dozen dialogues that explore core topics that are essential to all human beings. Although the historical Socrates was a strong influence on Plato, the character by that name that appears in many of his dialogues is a product of Plato’s fertile imagination. All of Plato’s dialogues are written in a poetic form that his student Aristotle called "Socratic dialogue." In the twentieth century, the British philosopher and logician Alfred North Whitehead characterized the entire European philosophical tradition as "a series of footnotes to Plato." Philosophy for Plato was not a set of doctrines but a goal — not the possession of wisdom but the love of wisdom. Agora Publications offers these performances based on the assumption that Plato wrote these works to be performed by actors in order to stimulate additional dialogue among those who listen to them.