Socratic Studies

ISBN-13: 9780521447355 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 168 str.

Gregory Vlastos; Myles F. Burnyeat

Opis

This is the companion volume to Gregory Vlastos' highly acclaimed Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher. Four ground-breaking papers that laid the basis for his understanding of Socrates are collected here, together with a fifth chapter that is a new and provocative discussion of Socrates' arguments in the Protagoras and Laches. The Epilogue, "Socrates and Vietnam," suggests that Socrates was not, as Plato claimed, the most just man of his time.

Recenzje

"Over the last dozen years or so Vlastos has transformed the study of Socrates with missionary zeal. He has produced a picture of Socrates that is amazingly consistent and often satisfying, built upon a series of plausible hypotheses." Ancient Philosophy

Spis treści

Editor's preface; 1. The Socratic elenchus: method is all; 2. Socrates' disavowal of knowledge; 3. Is the 'Socratic fallacy' Socratic?; 4. The historical Socrates and Athenian democracy; 5. The Protagoras and the Laches; Epilogue: Socrates and Vietnam; Additional notes.