Socrates in the Cave On the Philosopher's Motive in Plato /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Diduch, Paul J. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Harding, Michael P. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Σειρά: Recovering Political Philosophy,
• Θέματα: Political theory.; Political philosophy.; Political Theory.; Political Philosophy.

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,...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.