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Record Nr.

UNISA996214580703316

Titolo

A companion to Socrates [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Sara Ahbel-Rappe and Rachana Kamtekar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA ; ; Oxford, : Blackwell Pub., 2006

ISBN

1-78268-713-0

1-280-36203-0

9786610362035

1-4051-6436-0

0-470-99621-8

1-4051-5458-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (559 p.)

Collana

Blackwell companions to philosophy ; ; 34

Altri autori (Persone)

Ahbel-RappeSara <1960->

KamtekarRachana <1965->

Disciplina

183/.2

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Notes on Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 The Trial and Death of Socrates DEBRA NAILS; 2 Socrates and Euripides CHRISTIAN WILDBERG; 3 Socrates Among the Sophists PAUL WOODRUFF; 4 Socrates the Freethinker RICHARD JANKO; 5 How Does Socrates' Divine Sign Communicate with Him? A. A. LONG; 6 Socrates, Antisthenes, and the Cynics SUSAN PRINCE; 7 Xenophon's Socrates LOUIS-ANDRÉ DORION (TRANSLATED BY STEPHEN MENN, MCGILL UNIVERSITY); 8 Picturing Socrates KENNETH LAPATIN; 9 Socrates in Plato's Dialogues CHRISTOPHER ROWE

10 No One Errs Willingly: The Meaning of Socratic Intellectualism HEDA SEGVIC11 Socratic Love GEORGE RUDEBUSCH; 12 Socrates and Religious Experience JOHN BUSSANICH; 13 The Politics of Plato's Socrates RACHANA KAMTEKAR; 14 The Examined Life RICHARD KRAUT; 15 Socrates: Seeker or Preacher? ROSLYN WEISS; 16 Socratic Method and Socratic Truth HAROLD TARRANT; 17 Socrates in the Stoa ERIC BROWN; 18 Socrates and Epictetus TAD BRENNAN; 19 Socrates and Skepticism RICHARD BETT; 20 Socrates in Arabi



Sommario/riassunto

Explores the profound influence of Socrates on the history of Western philosophy. This companion provides an in-depth discussion of the various approaches to his philosophy. It also considers interdisciplinary subjects, such as Socrates and Nietzsche, Socrates and psychoanalysis, and representations of Socrates in art.