The way of the Platonic Socrates /

Who is Socrates? While most readers know him as the central figure in Plato's work, he is hard to characterize. In this book, S. Montgomery Ewegen opens this long-standing and difficult question once again. Reading Socrates against a number of Platonic texts, Ewegen sets out to understand the w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ewegen, S. Montgomery (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2020]
Series:Studies in Continental thought.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : wandering (planē): Apology
  • Retreat (anachōresis) : Phaedo/Timaeus
  • Power(lessness) (adynamia) : Gorgias
  • Poverty (penia) : Symposium
  • Indebtedness (opheileia) : Statesman
  • Ignorance (agnoia) : Protagoras
  • Releasement (lusis) : Republic
  • Epilogue : Plato.