Warnek, Peter A., 1962-

Descent of Socrates : self-knowledge and cryptic nature in the Platonic dialogues / Peter Warnek. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2005. - xix, 234 p. ; 24 cm. NFIC - Studies in Continental thought .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-228) and index.

Reading Plato with a difference : Socrates, beautiful, and new -- Socrates and the retreat of nature : suffering a simple teacher of ethics -- The purest thinker of the West and the older accusations in the Apology -- The good, the bad, and the ugly : nature, rhetoric, and refutation in the Gorgias -- Silenic wisdom in the Apology and Phaedo -- Teiresias in Athens : Socrates as educator in the Meno -- Typhonic eros and the place of the Phaedrus -- Truth and friendship.

0253346770 (cloth : alk. paper) 0253218160 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Socrates.
Plato. Dialogues.

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