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Socratic Wisdom : The Model of Knowledge in Plato's Early Dialogues

Author : Hugh H. Benson Professor of Philosophy University of Oklahoma
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199771240
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (712 download)

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Book Synopsis Socratic Wisdom : The Model of Knowledge in Plato's Early Dialogues by : Hugh H. Benson Professor of Philosophy University of Oklahoma

Download or read book Socratic Wisdom : The Model of Knowledge in Plato's Early Dialogues written by Hugh H. Benson Professor of Philosophy University of Oklahoma and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000-01-05 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the early Platonic dialogues have often been explored and appreciated for their ethical content, this is the first book devoted solely to the epistemology of Plato's early dialogues. Author Hugh H. Benson argues that the characteristic features of these dialogues--Socrates' method of questions and answers (elenchos), his fascination with definition, his professions of ignorance, and his thesis that virtue is knowledge--are decidedly epistemological. In this thoughtful study, Benson uncovers the model of knowledge that underlies these distinctively Socratic views. What emerges is unfamiliar, yet closer to a contemporary conception of scientific understanding than ordinary knowledge.

Plato's Socrates

Author : Thomas C. Brickhouse
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195101119
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Book Synopsis Plato's Socrates by : Thomas C. Brickhouse

Download or read book Plato's Socrates written by Thomas C. Brickhouse and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Socrates, as he is portrayed in Plato's early dialogues, remains one of the most controversial figures in the history of philosophy. This book concerns six of the most vexing and often discussed features of Plato's portrayal: Socrates' methodology, epistemology, psychology, ethics, politics, and religion. Brickhouse and Smith cast new light on Plato's early dialogues by providing novel analyses of many of the doctrines and practices for which Socrates is best known. Included are discussions of Socrates' moral method, his profession of ignorance, his denial of akrasia, as well as his views about the relationship between virtue and happiness, the authority of the State, and the epistemic status of his daimonion. By revealing the many interconnections among Socrates' views on a wide variety of topics, this book demonstrates both the richness and the remarkable coherence of the philosophy of Plato's Socrates.

Heresiography in Context

Author : Jaap Mansfeld
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004096165
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (961 download)

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Download or read book Heresiography in Context written by Jaap Mansfeld and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1992 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new assessment of the philosophical traditions Hippolytus depends on and of his method of presentation. This book deals with the reception of the Presocratics, Plato and Aristotle in the first centuries CE, and is a major contribution to our knowledge of the various currents in Pre-Neoplatonic Greek philosophy.

Does Socrates Have a Method?

Author : Gary Alan Scott
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271046495
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (464 download)

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Book Synopsis Does Socrates Have a Method? by : Gary Alan Scott

Download or read book Does Socrates Have a Method? written by Gary Alan Scott and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2009-03-02 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although "the Socratic method" is commonly understood as a style of pedagogy involving cross-questioning between teacher and student, there has long been debate among scholars of ancient philosophy about how this method as attributed to Socrates should be defined or, indeed, whether Socrates can be said to have used any single, uniform method at all distinctive to his way of philosophizing. This volume brings together essays by classicists and philosophers examining this controversy anew. The point of departure for many of those engaged in the debate has been the identification of Socratic method with "the elenchus" as a technique of logical argumentation aimed at refuting an interlocutor, which Gregory Vlastos highlighted in an influential article in 1983. The essays in this volume look again at many of the issues to which Vlastos drew attention but also seek to broaden the discussion well beyond the limits of his formulation. Some contributors question the suitability of the elenchus as a general description of how Socrates engages his interlocutors; others trace the historical origins of the kinds of argumentation Socrates employs; others explore methods in addition to the elenchus that Socrates uses; several propose new ways of thinking about Socratic practices. Eight essays focus on specific dialogues, each examining why Plato has Socrates use the particular methods he does in the context defined by the dialogue. Overall, representing a wide range of approaches in Platonic scholarship, the volume aims to enliven and reorient the debate over Socratic method so as to set a new agenda for future research. Contributors are Hayden W. Ausland, Hugh H. Benson, Thomas C. Brickhouse, Michelle Carpenter, John M. Carvalho, Lloyd P. Gerson, Francisco J. Gonzalez, James H. Lesher, Mark McPherran, Ronald M. Polansky, Gerald A. Press, François Renaud, and W. Thomas Schmid, Nicholas D. Smith, P. Christopher Smith, Harold Tarrant, Joanne B. Waugh, and Charles M. Young.

Refutatio omnium haeresium

Author : Hippolytus
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110858231
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Refutatio omnium haeresium written by Hippolytus and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1963 the series Patristische Texte und Studien has been publishing research findings coordinated by the Patristics Commission, which today is a joint venture of all the German Academies. The series is presenting editions, commentaries and monographs on the writings and teachings of the Church Fathers.

Musings on the Meno

Author : J.E. Thomas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400987838
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Book Synopsis Musings on the Meno by : J.E. Thomas

Download or read book Musings on the Meno written by J.E. Thomas and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objectives of this book are to provide a new translation of Plato's M eno together with a series of studies on its philcisophical argument in the light of recent secondary literature. My translation is based mainly on the Oxford Classical Text, 1. Burnet's Platonis Opera (Oxford Clarendon Press 1900) Vol. III. In conjunction with this I have made extensive use of R.S. Bluck's Plato's Meno (Cam bridge University Press, 1964). At critical places in the dialogue I have also consulted A. Croiset's Gorgias, Menon (Bude text). My debt ~o two other sources will be clearly in evidence. They are E.S. Thompson's Plato's Meno (London, MacMillan 1901), and St. George Stock's The Meno of Plato (Oxford Clarendon Press, 1894). One of the greatest difficulties facing a translator is to achieve a balance between accuracy and elegance. Literal translations are more likely to be accurate, but, alas, they also tend to be duller. Free translations run into the opposite danger of paying for elegance and liveliness with the coin of inaccuracy. Another hurdle, for a translator of a Platonic dialogue, is posed by the challenge to maintain the conversational pattern and fast moving character of the discussion. This is easier where the exchang~s are short, but much more difficult where Socrates gets somewhat long-winded.

Apologizing for Socrates

Author : Gabriel Danzig
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739132466
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Apologizing for Socrates written by Gabriel Danzig and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apologizing for Socrates examines some of Plato's and Xenophon's Socratic writings, specifically those that address well-known controversiese concerning the life and death of Socrates. Gabriel Danzig argues that the effort to defend Socrates from a variety of contemporary charges helps explain some of the central philosophical arguments and literary features that appear in these works. Concentrating on the two Apologies, Crito, Euthyphro, Xenophon's Symposium and Memorabilia, Lysis, and Oeconommicus, Danzig argues that the apologetic efforts were essential for rebuilding the community of Socratic friends and companions, which was devastated by the trial and death of Socrates. The Socratic writings are not merely literary or philosophical endeavors, but also political acts of great competence.

Responsible Belief

Author : Robert M. Frazier
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498225012
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Responsible Belief written by Robert M. Frazier and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-10-23 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Responsible Belief tackles the problem of fixing the tenacity of believers in forming, holding, and modifying beliefs. In conversation with the history of philosophy and religion, the author attempts to expose and refute some aspects of the dominant epistemological framework for engaging belief fixation and improvement. In contrast to this framework, Dr. Frazier provides a model of a responsible believing agent rooted in an ethic of the intellectual virtue tradition. In dialogue with Aristotle, he proposes three principal virtues, which he calls the generative, the transmissive, and the metamorphic. The author's alternative framework includes an examination of the role that intellectual passions play in the melioration of belief. Responsible Belief considers whether Doestoevsky's claim that "Beauty will save the world" has a place in discussions of belief formation and revision and offers an account of its vitality in addressing the concerns raised in the book.

Plato on Virtue and the Law

Author : Sandrine Berges
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1847065929
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Plato on Virtue and the Law written by Sandrine Berges and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-06-07 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important monograph examines Plato's contribution to virtue ethics and shows how his dialogues contain interesting and plausible insights into current philosophical concerns.

Plato: Clitophon

Author : Plato
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521623685
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (216 download)

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Book Synopsis Plato: Clitophon by : Plato

Download or read book Plato: Clitophon written by Plato and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-11-18 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Clitophon, a dialogue generally ascribed to Plato, is significant for focusing on Socrates' role as an exhorter of other people to engage in philosophy. It was almost certainly intended to bear closely on Plato's Republic and is a fascinating specimen of the philosophical protreptic, an important genre very fashionable at the time. This 1999 volume is a critical edition of this dialogue, in which Professor Slings provides a text based on an examination of all relevant manuscripts and accompanies it with a translation. His extensive introduction studies philosophical exhortation in the classical era, and tries to account for Plato's dialogues in general as a special type of exhortation. The Clitophon is seen as a defence of the Platonic dialogue. The commentary elucidates the Greek and discusses many passages where the meaning is not entirely clear.

Philosophy as Agôn

Author : Robert Metcalf
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810137992
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy as Agôn written by Robert Metcalf and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Philosophy as Agôn: A Study of Plato's Gorgias and Related Texts, Robert Metcalf offers a fresh interpretation of Plato's dialogues as dramatic texts whose philosophy is not so much a matter of doctrine as it is a dynamic, nondogmatic, and open-ended practice of engaging others in agonistic dialogue. Metcalf challenges prevailing interpretations according to which the agôn (contest or struggle) between the interlocutors in the dialogues is inessential to Plato's philosophical purpose, or simply a reflection of the cultural background of ancient Greek life. Instead, he argues that Plato understands philosophy as essentially agonistic—involving the adversarial engagement of others in dialogue such that one's integrity is put to the test through this engagement, and where the agôn is structured so as to draw adversaries together in agreement about the matters at issue, though that agreement is always open to future contest. Based on a careful reading of the Gorgias and related Socratic dialogues, such as Apology and Theaetetus, Metcalf contends that agôn is indispensable to the critique of prevailing opinions, to the transformation of the interlocutor through shame-inducing refutation, and to philosophy as a lifelong training (askêsis) of oneself in relation to others.

Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy

Author : John J. Cleary
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004131941
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy written by John J. Cleary and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1986 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This latest BACAP Proceedings covers three key areas in ancient philosophy, ethics, method and physics. Under ethics, there are three papers on Socratic piety, Aristotelian friendship, and Augustinian-Platonic virtue. Under method, Socratic elenchos, Socratic maieutic, and Aristotelian aporematic inquiry. Under physics, life in Plato and Proclus's reconsideration of Aristotelian motion.

Plato and Myth

Author : Catherine Collobert
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900422436X
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Plato and Myth written by Catherine Collobert and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-02-17 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume seeks to show how the philosophy of Plato relates to the literary form of his discourse. Myth is one aspect of this relation whose importance for the study of Plato is only now beginning to be recognized. Reflection on this topic is essential not only for understanding Plato’s conception of philosophy and its methods, but also for understanding more broadly the relation between philosophy and literature. The twenty chapters of this volume, contributed by scholars of diverse backgrounds and approaches, elucidate the various uses and statuses of Platonic myths in the first place by reflecting on myth per se and in the second place by focusing on a specific myth in the Platonic corpus.

Readings of Plato's Apology of Socrates

Author : Vivil Valvik Haraldsen
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498550002
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Book Synopsis Readings of Plato's Apology of Socrates by : Vivil Valvik Haraldsen

Download or read book Readings of Plato's Apology of Socrates written by Vivil Valvik Haraldsen and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-12-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors to this volume focus on the character of Socrates as the embodiment of philosophy, employing this as a starting point for exploring various themes exposed in the Apology. These include the relation of philosophy to democracy, rhetoric, politics, or society in general, and the overarching question of what comprises the philosophic life.

The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy

Author : Nicholas Bunnin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470997877
Total Pages : 976 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (79 download)

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Book Synopsis The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy by : Nicholas Bunnin

Download or read book The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy written by Nicholas Bunnin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully revised and updated edition of Nicholas Bunnin and E.P. Tsui-James’ popular introductory philosophy textbook brings together specially-commissioned chapters from a prestigious team of scholars writing on each of the key areas, figures and movements in philosophy.

Plato's Ethics

Author : Terence Irwin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195086457
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Plato's Ethics written by Terence Irwin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies Plato's Republic and other dialogues.

Early Greek Ethics

Author : David Conan Wolfsdorf
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198758677
Total Pages : 828 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Book Synopsis Early Greek Ethics by : David Conan Wolfsdorf

Download or read book Early Greek Ethics written by David Conan Wolfsdorf and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-05-22 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Greek Ethics is the first volume devoted to philosophical ethics in its "formative" period. It explores contributions from the Presocratics, figures of the early Pythagorean tradition, sophists, and anonymous texts, as well as topics influential to ethical philosophical thought such as Greek medicine, music, friendship, and justice.