Between Socrates and the Many - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Between Socrates and the Many write by J. Michael Hoffpauir. This book was released on 2019-12-10. Between Socrates and the Many available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Between Socrates and the Many: A Study of Plato’s Crito is foremost concerned with Plato’s character, Crito. By focusing on its namesake, Hoffpauir draws attention to aspects of the Crito that may otherwise go unnoticed or underrated: justice, as most know it, seems unjust, and justice, as Socrates knows it, seems impossible; love of one’s own, as most know it, limits one’s own good and the city’s good; and concern for the body and hatred of suffering undermine virtue. Through a consideration of the problems evinced by Crito—problems not peculiar to him or to his Athens—readers may gain a newfound appreciation of why Socrates’ arguments about living well fail. More importantly, by considering why Socrates must advance these arguments in the first place, readers may come to appreciate the strength of man’s natural resistance to that which is necessary for civilized life. Although Crito initially comes to sight as in-between Socrates and the many, as one who shares in the opinions of both, in the end, Crito reveals that all that is in-between Socrates and the many is an unbridgeable chasm.
Early Socratic Dialogues
Early Socratic Dialogues - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Early Socratic Dialogues write by Emlyn-Jones Chris. This book was released on 2005-06-30. Early Socratic Dialogues available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Republic
The Republic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Republic write by By Plato. This book was released on 2019-06-15. The Republic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Republic is a Socratic dialogue, written by Plato around 380 BCE, concerning the definition of justice, the order and character of the just city-state and the just man. The dramatic date of the dialogue has been much debated and though it must take place some time during the Peloponnesian War, "there would be jarring anachronisms if any of the candidate specific dates between 432 and 404 were assigned". It is Plato's best-known work and has proven to be one of the most intellectually and historically influential works of philosophy and political theory. In it, Socrates along with various Athenians and foreigners discuss the meaning of justice and examine whether or not the just man is happier than the unjust man by considering a series of different cities coming into existence "in speech", culminating in a city (Kallipolis) ruled by philosopher-kings; and by examining the nature of existing regimes. The participants also discuss the theory of forms, the immortality of the soul, and the roles of the philosopher and of poetry in society.
Socrates and Philosophy in the Dialogues of Plato
Socrates and Philosophy in the Dialogues of Plato - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Socrates and Philosophy in the Dialogues of Plato write by Sandra Peterson. This book was released on 2011-03-10. Socrates and Philosophy in the Dialogues of Plato available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Possibility of Inquiry
The Possibility of Inquiry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Possibility of Inquiry write by Gail Fine. This book was released on 2014-03. The Possibility of Inquiry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Gail Fine presents the first full-length study of Meno's Paradox, a challenge to the possibility of inquiry that was first formulated in Plato's Meno. She compares the responses of Plato, Aristotle, the Epicureans, the Stoics, and Sextus to the paradox, and considers a series of key questions concerning the nature of knowledge and inquiry.
