Socratic Discourses
Author: Plato
Publisher:
Published: 1916
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13:
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Plato: The Apology of Socrates and Xenophon: The Apology of Socrates
Author: Plato
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-04-18
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 0521765374
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides a student edition of Plato and Xenophon's accounts of how Socrates, on trial for his life, defended himself and his philosophy.
Milton's Socratic Rationalism
Author: David Oliver Davies
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2017-08-17
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 1498532632
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe conversation of Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost, that most obvious of Milton's additions to the Biblical narrative, enacts the pair's inquiry into and discovery of the gift of their rational nature in a mode of discourse closely aligned to practices of Socrates in the dialogues of Plato and eponymous discourses of Xenophon. Adam and Eve both begin their life "much wondering where\ And what I was, whence thither brought and how.” Their conjoint discoveries of each other's and their own nature in this talk Milton arranges for a in dialectical counterpoise to his persona's expressed task "to justify the ways of God to men." Like Xenophon's Socrates in the Memorabilia, Milton's persona indites those "ways of God" in terms most agreeable to his audience of "men"––notions Aristotle calls "generally accepted opinions." Thus for Milton's "fit audience" Paradise Lost willpresent two ways––that address congenial to men per se, and a fit discourse attuned to their very own rational faculties––to understand "the ways of God to men." The interrogation of each way by its counterpart among the distinct audiences is the "great Argument" of the poem.
The Roots of Political Philosophy
Author: Plato
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780801494659
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOpening an entirely new dimension of Platonic studies, this volume addresses major themes: the nature of law, property, and acquisitiveness; Socrates' famous "demonic voice"; the poetic claim to inspiration; and the psychology of the tyrannic.
Religio-Philosophical Discourses in the Mediterranean World
Author: Anders Klostergaard Petersen
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-03-13
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9004323139
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis first volume of the new Brill series “Ancient Philosophy & Religion” offers analyses of Platonic philosophy and piety, the emergence of a common religio-philosophical discourse in Antiquity, the place of Jesus among ancient philosophers, and responses of pagan philosophers to Christianity from the second century to Late Antiquity.
Plato and the Socratic Dialogue
Author: Charles H. Kahn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997-01-09
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9780521433259
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers a new interpretation of Plato's early and middle dialogues as the expression of a unified philosophical vision. Whereas the traditional view sees the dialogues as marking successive stages in Plato's philosophical development, we may more legitimately read them as reflecting an artistic plan for the gradual, indirect and partial exposition of Platonic philosophy. The magnificent literary achievement of the dialogues can be fully appreciated only from the viewpoint of a unitarian reading of the philosophical content.
Socrates, Man and Myth
Author: Anton-Hermann Chroust
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-08-06
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0429865899
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe purpose of this book, first published in 1957, is to make a critical analysis of the controversial Socratic problem. The Socratic issue owes its paramount difficulty not only to the status of available source materials, but also to the diversity of opinion as to the proper use of these materials. This volume offers a new approach to the problem, and a starting point to further investigations.
From Protagoras to Aristotle
Author: Heda Segvic
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2022-12-13
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 0691242232
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a collection of the late Heda Segvic's papers in ancient moral philosophy. At the time of her death at age forty-five in 2003, Segvic had already established herself as an important figure in ancient philosophy, making bold new arguments about the nature of Socratic intellectualism and the intellectual influences that shaped Aristotle's ideas. Segvic had been working for some time on a monograph on practical knowledge that would interpret Aristotle's ethical theory as a response to Protagoras. The essays collected here are those on which her reputation rests, including some that were intended to form the backbone of her projected monograph. The papers range from a literary study of Homer's influence on Plato's Protagoras to analytic studies of Aristotle's metaphysics and his ideas about deliberation. Most of the papers reflect directly or indirectly Segvic's idea that both Socrates' and Aristotle's universalism and objectivism in ethics could be traced back to their opposition to Protagorean relativism. The book represents the considerable achievements of one of the most talented scholars of ancient philosophy of her generation.
Routledge Library Editions: Socrates
Author: Owen Grazebrook
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-03-01
Total Pages: 1368
ISBN-13: 0429832710
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis five-volume set of previously out-of-print titles reissues some key works on Socrates, examining the man, his philosophy and the debates surrounding it, and his influence. With a mixture of newer and older books, this collection encompasses a wide spectrum of scholarship.
Remembering Socrates
Author: Lindsay Judson
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 2006-01-05
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 0191557056
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLindsay Judson and Vassilis Karasmanis present a selection of philosophical papers by an outstanding international team of scholars, assessing the legacy and continuing relevance of Socrates' thought 2,400 years after his death. Socrates' life, philosophical activity, and death not only had a formative effect on his follower Plato, and thus indirectly on almost the whole course of Greek philosophy, but also represented a moral and philosophical ideal which has been the inspiration, or the despair, of many philosophers and other thinkers down to the present day. The topics of the papers include Socratic method as portrayed by Plato and by Xenophon; the notion of definition; Socrates' intellectualist conception of ethics; famous arguments in the Euthyphro and Crito, and a not-so famous argument in the Hippias Major; and aspects of the later portrayal and reception of Socrates as a philosophical and ethical exemplar - by Plato, the Sceptics, and in the early Christian era. The collection demonstrates the vitality as well as the diversity of Socratic studies, and will interest many ancient philosophers, historians of philosophy, and classicists.
