Socrates and Aristophanes - 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 Aristophanes write by Leo Strauss. This book was released on 1980. Socrates and Aristophanes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In one of his last books, Socrates and Aristophanes, Leo Strauss's examines the confrontation between Socrates and Aristophanes in Aristophanes' comedies. Looking at eleven plays, Strauss shows that this confrontation is essentially one between poetry and philosophy, and that poetry emerges as an autonomous wisdom capable of rivaling philosophy. "Strauss gives us an impressive addition to his life's work—the recovery of the Great Tradition in political philosophy. The problem the book proposes centers formally upon Socrates. As is typical of Strauss, he raises profound issues with great courage. . . . [He addresses] a problem that has been inherent in Western life ever since [Socrates'] execution: the tension between reason and religion. . . . Thus, we come to Aristophanes, the great comic poet, and his attack on Socrates in the play The Clouds. . . [Strauss] translates it into the basic problem of the relation between poetry and philosophy, and resolves this by an analysis of the function of comedy in the life of the city." —Stanley Parry, National Review
The Cambridge Companion to Socrates
The Cambridge Companion to Socrates - 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 Cambridge Companion to Socrates write by Donald R. Morrison. This book was released on 2011. The Cambridge Companion to Socrates available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Essays from a diverse group of experts providing a comprehensive guide to Socrates, the most famous Greek philosopher.
Socrates and the Political Community
Socrates and the Political Community - 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 the Political Community write by Mary P. Nichols. This book was released on 1987-07-01. Socrates and the Political Community available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book takes a fresh look at Socrates as he appeared to three ancient writers: Aristophanes, who attacked him for his theoretical studies; Plato, who immortalized him in his dialogues; and Aristotle, who criticized his political views. It addresses the questions of the interrelation of politics and philosophy by looking at Aristophanes' Clouds, Plato's Republic, and Book II of Aristotle's Politics—three sides of a debate on the value of Socrates' philosophic life. Mary Nichols first discusses the relation between Aristophanes and Plato, showing that the city as Socrates' place of activity in the Republic resembles the philosophic thinktank mocked in Aristophanes' Clouds. By representing the extremes of the Republic's city, Plato shows that the dangers attributed by Aristophanes to the city are actually inherent in political life itself. They were to be moderated by Socratic political philosophy rather than Aristophanean comedy. Nichols concludes by showing how Aristotle addressed the question at issue between Plato and Aristophanes when he founded his political science. Judging Plato's and Aristophanes' positions as partial, Nichols argues that Aristotle based his political science on the necessity to philosophy of political involvement and the necessity to politics of philosophical thought.
Four Texts on Socrates
Four Texts on Socrates - 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 Four Texts on Socrates write by Plato. This book was released on 1984. Four Texts on Socrates available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Plato and Aristophanes
Plato and Aristophanes - 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 Plato and Aristophanes write by Marina Marren. This book was released on 2021-11-15. Plato and Aristophanes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Plato and Aristophanes, Marina Marren contends that our search for communal justice must start with self-examination. The realization that there are things that we cannot know about ourselves unless we become the subject of a joke is integral to such self-scrutiny. Jokes provide a new perspective on our politics and ethics; they are essential to our civic self-awareness. Marren makes this case by delving into Plato’s Republic, a foundational work of political philosophy. While the Republic straightforwardly condemns the decadence and greed of a tyrant, Plato’s attack on political idealism is both solemn and comedic. In fact, Plato draws on the same comedic stock and tropes as do Aristophanes’s plays. Marren’s book strikes up an innovative conversation between three works by Aristophanes—Assembly Women, Knights, and Birds—and Plato’s philosophy, prompting important questions about individual convictions and one’s personal search for justice. These dialogic works offer critiques of tyranny that are by turns brilliant, scathing, and exuberant, making light of faults and ideals alike. Philosophical comedy exposes despotism in individuals as well as systems of government claiming to be just and good. This critique holds as much bite against contemporary injustices as it did at the time of Aristophanes and Plato. An ingenious new work by an emerging scholar, Plato and Aristophanes shows that comedy—in tandem with philosophy and politics—is essential to self-examination. And without such examination, there is no hope for a just life.
