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  title info:
    title: Socrates in the Cave
    sub title: On the Philosopher's Motive in Plato
  name:
    name part: Diduch, Paul J.
    role:
      role term: editor.
    role:
      role term: edt
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt
  name:
    name part: Harding, Michael P.
    role:
      role term: editor.
    role:
      role term: edt
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 347 p. online resource.
  abstract: This book addresses the problem of fully explaining Socrates' motives for philosophic interlocution in Plato's dialogues. Why, for instance, does Socrates talk to many philosophically immature and seemingly incapable interlocutors? Are his motives in these cases moral, prudential, erotic, pedagogic, or intellectual? In any one case, can Socrates' reasons for engaging an unlikely interlocutor be explained fully on the grounds of intellectual self-interest (i.e., the promise of advancing his own wisdom)? Or does his activity, including his self-presentation and staging of his death, require additional motives for adequate explanation? Finally, how, if at all, does our conception of Socrates' motives help illuminate our understanding of the life of reason as Plato presents it? By inviting a multitude of authors to contribute their thoughts on these question-all of whom share a commitment to close reading, but by no means agree on the meaning of Plato's dialogues-this book provides the reader with an excellent map of the terrain of these problems and aims to help the student of Plato clarify the tensions involved, showing especially how each major stance on Socrates entails problematic assumptions that prompt further critical reflection.
  table of contents: 1. Editors' Introduction -- 2. The Strange Conversation of Plato's Minos -- 3. Platonic Beginnings -- 4. A Look at Socrates' Motives in the Laches -- 5. Socrates' Self-Knowledge -- 6. Socrates' Exhortation to Follow the Logos -- 7. Philosophy, Eros, and the Socratic Turn -- 8. Free to Care: Socrates' Political Engagement -- 10. Socrates: Sisyphean or Overflowing? -- 11. Socrates' Motives and Human Wisdom in Plato's Theages -- 12. Plato's Euthyphro on Divine and Human Wisdom -- 13. On the Question of Socratic Benevolence -- 14. Philanthropy in the Action of the Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito -- 15. Philosophic Care in the Life of Plato's Socrates -- 16. Plato's Sons and the Library of Magnesia.
  note: edited by Paul J. Diduch, Michael P. Harding.
  subject:
    topic: Political theory
  subject:
    topic: Political philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Political Theory
  subject:
    topic: Political Philosophy
  classification: JC11-607
  classification: 320.01
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Recovering Political Philosophy
  identifier: 9783319768311
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76831-1
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    record creation date: 180517
    record change date: 20191025191931.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-76831-1