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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| Language: | English |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | Studies in Continental thought.
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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.