McNeill, David N., 1965-

An image of the soul in speech : Plato and the problem of Socrates / David N. McNeill. - University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2010. - 345 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-319) and indexes.

Plato's Socrates on the problem of Socrates -- Republic, Book 1: philosophy and cultural decadence -- Polemarchus, politics, and action -- Thrasymachus, rhetoric, and the art of rule -- Gorgias and the divine work of persuasion -- Protagoras, antinaturalism, and the political art -- Tyrannical Eros and the philosophic orientation of the Republic -- Imitation and experience -- Poetry, psychology, and to/qumoeide/ -- Psychology and ontology -- An image of the soul in speech.

9780271035857 (cloth : alk. paper)

2009024996


Socrates.
Plato. Dialogues.

B317 / .M395 2010

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