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Remembering Socrates: Philosophical Essays
(Edited By Judson, Lindsay; Karasmanis, Vassilis)
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Description for Remembering Socrates: Philosophical Essays
hardcover. Presents a selection of philosophical papers, assessing the legacy and continuing relevance of Socrates' thought. This work is useful for ancient philosophers, historians of philosophy, and classicists. The topics of the papers include Socratic method; the notion of definition; and Socrates' intellectualist conception of ethics. Editor(s): Judson, Lindsay; Karasmanis, Vassilis. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 488. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
Lindsay Judson and Vassilis Karasmanis present a selection of philosophical papers by an outstanding international team of scholars, assessing the legacy and continuing relevance of Socrates' thought 2,400 years after his death. Socrates' life, philosophical activity, and death not only had a formative effect on his follower Plato, and thus indirectly on almost the whole course of Greek philosophy, but also represented a moral and philosophical ideal which has been the inspiration, or the despair, of many philosophers and other thinkers down to the present day. The topics of the papers include Socratic method as portrayed by Plato and ... Read more
Lindsay Judson and Vassilis Karasmanis present a selection of philosophical papers by an outstanding international team of scholars, assessing the legacy and continuing relevance of Socrates' thought 2,400 years after his death. Socrates' life, philosophical activity, and death not only had a formative effect on his follower Plato, and thus indirectly on almost the whole course of Greek philosophy, but also represented a moral and philosophical ideal which has been the inspiration, or the despair, of many philosophers and other thinkers down to the present day. The topics of the papers include Socratic method as portrayed by Plato and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
OUP Oxford
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199276134
SKU
KSK0000412
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Ref
99-1
Reviews for Remembering Socrates: Philosophical Essays
A rich collection, the cumulative effect of which... is paradoxically to bring the philosophical personality of Socrates more sharply before our eyes.
Chris Emlyn-Jones, JHS
The contributors are some of the finest scholars in the field...the papers are intellectually stimulating and handsomely repay the reader's careful attention.
Roslyn Weiss, Mind
Chris Emlyn-Jones, JHS
The contributors are some of the finest scholars in the field...the papers are intellectually stimulating and handsomely repay the reader's careful attention.
Roslyn Weiss, Mind