Socrates and the Fat Rabbis - 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 Fat Rabbis write by Daniel Boyarin. This book was released on 2009-09-28. Socrates and the Fat Rabbis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What kind of literature is the Talmud? To answer this question, Daniel Boyarin looks to an unlikely source: the dialogues of Plato. In these ancient texts he finds similarities, both in their combination of various genres and topics and in their dialogic structure. But Boyarin goes beyond these structural similarities, arguing also for a cultural relationship.In Socrates and the Fat Rabbis, Boyarin suggests that both the Platonic and the talmudic dialogues are not dialogic at all. Using Michael Bakhtin’s notion of represented dialogue and real dialogism, Boyarin demonstrates, through multiple close readings, that the give-and-take in these texts is actually much closer to a monologue in spirit. At the same time, he shows that there is a dialogism in both texts on a deeper structural level between a voice of philosophical or religious dead seriousness and a voice from within that mocks that very high solemnity at the same time. Boyarin ultimately singles out Menippean satire as the most important genre through which to understand both the Talmud and Plato, emphasizing their seriocomic peculiarity.An innovative advancement in rabbinic studies, as well as a bold and controversial new way of reading Plato, Socrates and the Fat Rabbis makes a major contribution to scholarship on thought and culture of the ancient Mediterranean.
The Trials of Socrates
The Trials of 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 Trials of Socrates write by Plato. This book was released on 2002-03-15. The Trials of Socrates available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Lampooned in 406 B.C.E. in a blistering Aristophanic satire, Socrates was tried in 399 B.C.E. on a charge of corrupting the youth, convicted by a jury of about five hundred of his peers, and condemned to death. Glimpsed today through the extant writings of his contemporaries and near-contemporaries, he remains for us as compelling, enigmatic, and elusive a figure as Jesus or Buddha. Although present-day (like ancient Greek) opinion on the real Socrates diverges widely, six classic texts that any informed judgment of him must take into account appear together, for the first time, in this volume. Those of Plato and Xenophon appear in new, previously unpublished translations that combine accuracy, accessibility, and readability; that of Aristophanes' Clouds offers these same qualities in an unbowdlerized translation that captures brilliantly the bite of Aristophanes' wit. An Introduction to each text and judicious footnotes provide crucial background information and important cross-references.
Socrates on Trial
Socrates on Trial - 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 on Trial write by Thomas C. Brickhouse. This book was released on 1990-09-04. Socrates on Trial available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Thomas Brickhouse and Nicholas Smith offer a comprehensive historical and philosophical interpretation of, and commentary on, one of Plato's most widely read works, the Apology of Socrates. Virtually every modern interpretation characterizes some part of what Socrates says in the Apology as purposefully irrelevant or even antithetical to convincing the jury to acquit him at his trial. This book, by contrast, argues persuasively that Socrates offers a sincere and well-reasoned defense against the charges he faces. First, the authors establish a consensus of ancient reports about Socrates' moral and religious principles and show that these prohibit him from needlessly risking the condemnation of the jury. Second, they consider each specific claim made by Socrates in the Apology and show how each can be construed as an honest effort to inform the jurors of the truth and to convince them of his blamelessness. The arguments of this book are informed by a critical review of the scholarly literature and careful attention to the philosophy expressed in Plato's other early dialogues.
The Trial and Death of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo
The Trial and Death of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo - 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 Trial and Death of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo write by Plato. This book was released on 2017-08-29. The Trial and Death of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This new digital edition of The Trial and Death of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo presents Benjamin Jowett's classic translations, as revised by Enhanced Media Publishing. A number of new or expanded annotations are also included.
The Life of Socrates
The Life of 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 Life of Socrates write by John Gilbert Cooper. This book was released on 1750. The Life of Socrates available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
