<<The>> way of the Platonic Socrates

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.

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1. Verfasser: Ewegen, S. Montgomery (VerfasserIn)
Körperschaft: Indiana University Press (Verlag)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Bloomington, Indiana Indiana University Press 2020
Schriftenreihe:Studies in Continental thought
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Zusammenfassung: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.
"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 way of Socrates. Taking on the nuances and contours of the Socrates that emerges from the dramatic and philosophical contexts of Plato's works, Ewegen considers questions of withdrawal, retreat, powerlessness, poverty, concealment, and release and how they construct a new view of Socrates. For Ewegen, Socrates is a powerful but strange and uncanny figure. Ewegen's withdrawn Socrates forever evades rigid interpretation and must instead remain a deep and insoluble question"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XIII, 156 Seiten
ISBN:9780253047564
9780253047557