The Socratic Turn - 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 Socratic Turn write by Dustin Sebell. This book was released on 2016. The Socratic Turn available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Can we come to know what is good and evil, right and wrong in our age of science? In The Socratic Turn, Dustin Sebell looks to Socrates, the founder of political philosophy, for guidance.
Xenophon's Socratic Education
Xenophon's Socratic Education - 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 Xenophon's Socratic Education write by Dustin Sebell. This book was released on 2021-03-11. Xenophon's Socratic Education available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It is well known that Socrates was executed by the city of Athens for not believing in the gods and for corrupting the youth. Despite this, it is not widely known what he really thought, or taught the youth to think, about philosophy, the gods, and political affairs. Of the few authors we rely on for firsthand knowledge of Socrates—Aristophanes, Xenophon, Plato, and Aristotle—only Xenophon, the least read of the four, lays out the whole Socratic education in systematic order. In Xenophon's Socratic Education, through a careful reading of Book IV of Xenophon's Memorabilia, Dustin Sebell shows how Socrates ascended, with his students in tow, from opinions about morality or politics and religion to knowledge of such things. Besides revealing what it was that Socrates really thought—about everything from self-knowledge to happiness, natural theology to natural law, and rhetoric to dialectic—Sebell demonstrates how Socrates taught promising youths, like Xenophon or Plato, only indirectly: by jokingly teaching unpromising youths in their presence. Sebell ultimately shows how Socrates, the founder of moral and political philosophy, sought and found an answer to the all-important question: should we take our bearings in life from human reason, or revealed religion?
Plato's Depiction of the Socratic Turn in the Phaedo, Parmenides, and Symposium
Plato's Depiction of the Socratic Turn in the Phaedo, Parmenides, and Symposium - 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's Depiction of the Socratic Turn in the Phaedo, Parmenides, and Symposium write by Martin Black. This book was released on 2009. Plato's Depiction of the Socratic Turn in the Phaedo, Parmenides, and Symposium available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
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 Socratic Individual
The Socratic Individual - 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 Socratic Individual write by Ann Ward. This book was released on 2020-05-15. The Socratic Individual available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The author explores the recovery of Socratic philosophy in the political thought of G.W.F. Hegel, Soren Kierkegaard, John Stuart Mill, and Friedrich Nietzsche. Ward identifies the cause of the renewed interest in Socrates in Hegel’s call for the absorption of the individual within the modern, liberal state and the concomitant claim that Socratic skepticism should cease because history has reached its end and perfection. Recoiling from Hegel’s attempt to chain the individual within the “cave,” nineteenth century thinkers push back against his deification of the state. Yet, underlying Kierkegaard, Mill and Nietzsche’s turn to Socrates is their acceptance of Hegel’s critique of the liberal conception of the rights-bearing individual. Like Hegel, they agree that such an individual is an unworthy competitor to the state. In search of a noble individual to hold up against the state and counter the belief in the “end” of history, Kierkegaard, Mill and Nietzsche bring back and transform Socrates in significant ways. For Kierkegaard the Socratic philosopher in modern times is the person of faith, for Mill the public intellectual whose idiosyncratic identity arises from the freedom of speech, and for Nietzsche the Dionysian artist. Each model the beauty of individuality in our democratic age.
