Remembering Socrates: Philosophical Essays

ISBN-13: 9780199276134 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 226 str.

Lindsay Judson; Vassilis Karasmanis

Opis

Lindsay Judson and Vassilis Karasmanis present a selection of philosophical papers by an outstanding international team of scholars, assessing the legacy and continuing relevance of Socrates's thought 2,400 years after his death. The topics of the papers include Socratic method; the notion of definition; Socrates's intellectualist conception of ethics; famous arguments in the Euthyphro and Crito; and aspects of the later portrayal and reception of Socrates as a philosophical and ethical exemplar, by Plato, the Sceptics, and in the early Christian era.
Contributors include Lesley Brown, David Charles, John Cooper, Michael Frede, Terence Irwin, Charles Kahn, Vassilis Karasmanis, Carlo Natali, Vasilis Politis, Dory Scaltsas, Gerhard Seel, and C. C. W. Taylor.

Recenzje

The contributors are some of the finest scholars in the field...the papers are intellectually stimulating and handsomely repay the reader's careful attention.