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Socrates in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Author : Michael Trapp
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351899082
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Socrates in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries written by Michael Trapp and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Socrates, son of Sophroniscus, of Alopece is arguably the most richly and diversely commemorated - and appropriated - of all ancient thinkers. Already in Antiquity, vigorous controversy over his significance and value ensured a wide range of conflicting representations. He then became available to the medieval, renaissance and modern worlds in a provocative variety of roles: as paradigmatic philosopher and representative (for good or ill) of ancient philosophical culture in general; as practitioner of a distinctive philosophical method, and a distinctive philosophical lifestyle; as the ostensible originator of startling doctrines about politics and sex; as martyr (the victim of the most extreme of all miscarriages of justice); as possessor of an extraordinary, and extraordinarily significant physical appearance; and as the archetype of the hen-pecked intellectual. To this day, he continues to be the most readily recognized of ancient philosophers, as much in popular as in academic culture. This volume, along with its companion, Socrates from Antiquity to the Enlightenment, aims to do full justice to the source material (philosophical, literary, artistic, political), and to the range of interpretative issues it raises. It opens with an Introduction summarizing the reception of Socrates up to 1800, and describing scholarly study since then. This is followed by sections on the hugely influential Socrateses of Hegel, Kirkegaard and Nietzsche; representations of Socrates (particularly his erotic teaching) principally inspired by Plato's Symposium; and political manipulations of Socratic material, especially in the 20th century. A distinctive feature is the inclusion of Cold War Socrateses, both capitalist and communist.

The Disenchantment of Reason

Author : Paul R. Harrison
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791418376
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book The Disenchantment of Reason written by Paul R. Harrison and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an examination of nineteenth-century interpretations of Socrates by Hegel, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche in the light of the contemporary debates over rationality in the modern world. These interpretations of Socrates have fundamentally influenced modern and postmodern thought, and their complexity reflects both an attraction to, and a fear of, the peculiarly modern concept of reason that Socrates is read as embodying. Socrates is seen in this book as an emblematic figure through which the constitutive tensions between enlightenment and romanticism in modern thought can be understood. In the concluding chapter, Harrison analyzes the claims of discursive reason versus those of deconstruction in the postmodern conflict over the figure of Socrates.

Socrates from Antiquity to the Enlightenment and Socrates in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Author : M. B. Trapp
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780754660712
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Socrates from Antiquity to the Enlightenment and Socrates in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries written by M. B. Trapp and published by Ashgate Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007-06-28 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With contributions by both established and rising scholars, these two volumes survey interpretations and uses of this most iconic of all ancient philosophers over nearly 2,500 years, principally outside the confines of formal philosophy. The treatments discussed range from those of Aristophanes, Plato, and Xenophon in antiquity, to presentations and exploitations of Socrates in twentieth-century American political discourse and Cold War Bulgaria, via the hugely influential nineteenth-century readings of Hegel, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche. Special attention is given in both volumes to representations of Socrates in music, drama, and the visual arts.

Brill's Companion to the Reception of Socrates

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004396756
Total Pages : 1027 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Brill's Companion to the Reception of Socrates written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 1027 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Socrates, edited by Christopher Moore, provides almost unbroken coverage, across three-dozen studies, of 2450 years of philosophical and literary engagement with Socrates – the singular Athenian intellectual, paradigm of moral discipline, and inspiration for millennia of philosophical, rhetorical, and dramatic composition. Following an Introduction reflecting on the essentially “receptive” nature of Socrates’ influence (by contrast to Plato’s), chapters address the uptake of Socrates by authors in the Classical, Hellenistic, Roman, Late Antique (including Latin Christian, Syriac, and Arabic), Medieval (including Byzantine), Renaissance, Early Modern, Late Modern, and Twentieth-Century periods. Together they reveal the continuity of Socrates’ idiosyncratic, polyvalent, and deep imprint on the history of Western thought, and witness the value of further research in the reception of Socrates.

The Socratic Individual

Author : Ann Ward
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793603782
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book The Socratic Individual written by Ann Ward and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Concept of Presocratic Philosophy

Author : André Laks
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691191484
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book The Concept of Presocratic Philosophy written by André Laks and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we talk about Presocratic philosophy, we are speaking about the origins of Greek philosophy and Western rationality itself. But what exactly does it mean to talk about “Presocratic philosophy” in the first place? How did early Greek thinkers come to be considered collectively as Presocratic philosophers? In this brief book, André Laks provides a history of the influential idea of Presocratic philosophy, tracing its historical and philosophical significance and consequences, from its ancient antecedents to its full crystallization in the modern period and its continuing effects today. Laks examines ancient Greek and Roman views about the birth of philosophy before turning to the eighteenth-century emergence of the term “Presocratics” and the debates about it that spanned the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He analyzes the intellectual circumstances that led to the idea of Presocratic philosophy—and what was and is at stake in the construction of the notion. The book closes by comparing two models of the history of philosophy—the phenomenological, represented by Hans-Georg Gadamer, and the rationalist, represented by Ernst Cassirer—and their implications for Presocratic philosophy, as well as other categories of philosophical history. Other figures discussed include Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Diogenes Laertius, Schleiermacher, Hegel, Nietzsche, Max Weber, and J.-P. Vernant. Challenging standard histories of Presocratic philosophy, the book calls for a reconsideration of the conventional story of early Greek philosophy and Western rationality.

Socrates: A Guide for the Perplexed

Author : Sara Ahbel-Rappe
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826433251
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Socrates: A Guide for the Perplexed written by Sara Ahbel-Rappe and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-08-30 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to Socrates, ideal for undergraduate students taking courses in Ancient and Greek Philosophy.

The Socrates Express

Author : Eric Weiner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501129031
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Socrates Express written by Eric Weiner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling author of The Geography of Bliss embarks on a rollicking intellectual journey, following in the footsteps of history’s greatest thinkers and showing us how each—from Epicurus to Gandhi, Thoreau to Beauvoir—offers practical and spiritual lessons for today’s unsettled times. We turn to philosophy for the same reasons we travel: to see the world from a different perspective, to unearth hidden beauty, and to find new ways of being. We want to learn how to embrace wonder. Face regrets. Sustain hope. Eric Weiner combines his twin passions for philosophy and travel in a globe-trotting pilgrimage that uncovers surprising life lessons from great thinkers around the world, from Rousseau to Nietzsche, Confucius to Simone Weil. Traveling by train (the most thoughtful mode of transport), he journeys thousands of miles, making stops in Athens, Delhi, Wyoming, Coney Island, Frankfurt, and points in between to reconnect with philosophy’s original purpose: teaching us how to lead wiser, more meaningful lives. From Socrates and ancient Athens to Beauvoir and 20th-century Paris, Weiner’s chosen philosophers and places provide important practical and spiritual lessons as we navigate today’s chaotic times. In a “delightful” odyssey that “will take you places intellectually and humorously” (San Francisco Book Review), Weiner invites us to voyage alongside him on his life-changing pursuit of wisdom and discovery as he attempts to find answers to our most vital questions. The Socrates Express is “full of valuable lessons…a fun, sharp book that draws readers in with its apparent simplicity and bubble-gum philosophy approach and gradually pulls them in deeper and deeper” (NPR).

Socrates

Author : William J. Prior
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509529764
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Socrates written by William J. Prior and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Socrates is one the most important thinkers in western philosophy, yet he remains enigmatic, having left behind no works of his own. Instead, his thought is understood primarily through the work of his followers, particularly Plato. Yet Plato's dialogues can offer conflicting portraits of Socrates. On the one hand, he is portrayed as “barren of wisdom”: he has questions but no answers. On the other, he appears to be “fertile”: he has important things to say about those questions. Can he be both? Although Plato’s works focus on Socrates' questions, not his answers, a careful reading can reveal many of Socrates’ likely views. In this accessible introduction, William Prior assesses Socrates the man, his famous trial, and the nature of his philosophy. He explores Socrates' intellectualism, conception of the good life, his religious views and his thoughts concerning justice. All the way through, Prior reflects on Socrates’ distinctive method of asking questions, and the enormous influence he has had on philosophy to this day.

The Cambridge Companion to Socrates

Author : Donald R. Morrison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521833426
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Socrates written by Donald R. Morrison and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays from a diverse group of experts providing a comprehensive guide to Socrates, the most famous Greek philosopher.

Socrates from Antiquity to the Enlightenment

Author : Michael Trapp
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351899120
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Socrates from Antiquity to the Enlightenment written by Michael Trapp and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Socrates, son of Sophroniscus, of Alopece is arguably the most richly and diversely commemorated - and appropriated - of all ancient thinkers. Already in Antiquity, vigorous controversy over his significance and value ensured a wide range of conflicting representations. He then became available to the medieval, renaissance and modern worlds in a provocative variety of roles: as paradigmatic philosopher and representative (for good or ill) of ancient philosophical culture in general; as practitioner of a distinctive philosophical method, and a distinctive philosophical lifestyle; as the ostensible originator of startling doctrines about politics and sex; as martyr (the victim of the most extreme of all miscarriages of justice); as possessor of an extraordinary, and extraordinarily significant physical appearance; and as the archetype of the hen-pecked intellectual. To this day, he continues to be the most readily recognized of ancient philosophers, as much in popular as in academic culture. This volume, along with its companion, Socrates in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, aims to do full justice to the source material (philosophical, literary, artistic, political), and to the range of interpretative issues it raises. It opens with an Introduction surveying ancient accounts of Socrates, and discussing the origins and current state of the 'Socratic question'. This is followed by three sections, covering the Socrates of Antiquity, with perspectives forward to later developments (especially in drama and the visual arts); Socrates from Late Antiquity to medieval times; and Socrates in the Renaissance and Enlightenment. Among topics singled out for special attention are medieval Arabic and Jewish interest in Socrates, and his role in the European Enlightenment as an emblem of moral courage and as the clinching proof of the follies of democracy.

Plato's Cleitophon

Author : Mark Kremer
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739108185
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Plato's Cleitophon written by Mark Kremer and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It had been thought that theCleitophon was a spurious dialogue. Its brevity and the fact that Socrates does not respond to accusations from Cleitophon suggested to scholars that it was only a fragment. However, in the last fifteen years, the complete and authentic dialogue was rediscovered. Upon its discovery, scholars have almost universally agreed that the Cleitophon is the introduction to Plato'sRepublic. In Plato's Cleitophon: On Socrates and the Modern Mind editor, translator, and author, Mark Kremer, has mined some of the best scholarship on the relationship of Plato's Cleitophon and its relationship to modern thought. It is the contention of the editor that the Cleitophon, is an ancient example of the psychic, social, cultural, and moral strain that is put upon the citizens of a republic when their society begins to erode on all fronts. This work has the potential to afford readers an ancient perspective on ourselves by showing us how we appear in Plato's mind. It should be read by anyone who has ever read Plato'sRepublic; as well as anyone who is concerned about the social, psychic, cultural, and moral effects of postmodernity and globalization.

A Companion to Socrates

Author : Sara Ahbel-Rappe
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405192607
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Socrates written by Sara Ahbel-Rappe and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-05-11 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by an outstanding international team of scholars, this Companion explores the profound influence of Socrates on the history of Western philosophy. Discusses the life of Socrates and key philosophical doctrines associated with him Covers the whole range of Socratic studies from the ancient world to contemporary European philosophy Examines Socrates’ place in the larger philosophical traditions of the Hellenistic world, the Roman Empire, the Arabic world, the Renaissance, and contemporary Europe Addresses interdisciplinary subjects such as Socrates and Nietzsche, Socrates and psychoanalysis, and representations of Socrates in art Helps readers to understand the meaning and significance of Socrates across the ages

Socrates: A Very Short Introduction

Author : Christopher Taylor
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191540390
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Socrates: A Very Short Introduction written by Christopher Taylor and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2000-10-12 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Socrates has a unique position in the history of philosophy. It is no exaggeration to say that had it not been for his influence on Plato, the whole development of Western philosophy might have bee unimaginably different. Yet Socrates wrote nothing himself, and our knowledge of him is derived primarily from the engaging and infuriating figure who appears in Plato's dialogues. In this book, Christopher Taylor explores the relationship between the historical Socrates and the Platonic character, and examines the enduring image of Socrates as the ideal exemplar of the philosophic life - a thinker whose moral and intellectual integrity permeated every detail of his life, even in the face of betrayal and execution by his fellow Athenians. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Socrates Founding Political Philosophy in Xenophon's "Economist", "Symposium", and "Apology"

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Author : Thomas L. Pangle
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022664247X
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Socrates Founding Political Philosophy in Xenophon's "Economist", "Symposium", and "Apology" written by Thomas L. Pangle and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-04-22 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The oeuvre of the Greek historian Xenophon, whose works stand with those of Plato as essential accounts of the teachings of Socrates, has seen a new surge of attention after decades in the shadows. And no one has done more in recent years to spearhead the revival than Thomas L. Pangle. Here, Pangle provides a sequel to his study of Xenophon’s longest account of Socrates, the Memorabilia, expanding the scope of inquiry through an incisive treatment of Xenophon’s shorter Socratic dialogues, the Economist, the Symposium, and the Apology of Socrates to the Jury. What Pangle reveals is that these three depictions of Socrates complement and, in fact, serve to complete the Memorabilia in meaningful ways. Unlike the Socrates of Plato, Xenophon’s Socrates is more complicated and human, an individual working out the problem of what it means to live well and virtuously. While the Memorabilia defends Socrates by stressing his likeness to conventionally respectable gentlemen, Xenophon’s remaining Socratic texts offer a more nuanced characterization by highlighting how Socrates also diverges from conventions of gentlemanliness in his virtues, behaviors, and peculiar views of quotidian life and governmental rule. One question threads through the three writings: Which way of life best promotes human existence, politics, and economics—that of the Socratic political philosopher with his philosophic virtues or that of the gentleman with his familial, civic, and moral virtues? In uncovering the nuances of Xenophon’s approach to the issue in the Economist, Symposium, and Apology, Pangle’s book cements the significance of these writings for the field and their value for shaping a fuller conception of just who Socrates was and what he taught.

Twentieth Century

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1090 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Twentieth Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1090 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nineteenth century and after (London)

The Socratic Movement

Author : Paul A. Vander Waerdt
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801499036
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book The Socratic Movement written by Paul A. Vander Waerdt and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 14 essays which examine the efforts of Socrates' associates to preserve his speeches for posterity. The papers place particular emphasis on the non-Platonic tradition.