Descent of Socrates : self-knowledge and cryptic nature in the Platonic dialogues /

Main Author: Warnek, Peter A., 1962-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2005.
Series:Studies in Continental thought
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Table of Contents:
  • Reading Plato with a difference : Socrates, beautiful, and new
  • Socrates and the retreat of nature : suffering a simple teacher of ethics
  • The purest thinker of the West and the older accusations in the Apology
  • The good, the bad, and the ugly : nature, rhetoric, and refutation in the Gorgias
  • Silenic wisdom in the Apology and Phaedo
  • Teiresias in Athens : Socrates as educator in the Meno
  • Typhonic eros and the place of the Phaedrus
  • Truth and friendship.