How philosophy became socratic : a study of Plato's Protagoras, Charmides, and Republic / Laurence Lampert.
By: Lampert, Laurence.
Publisher: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2010Description: vii;441 p.ISBN: 9780226470962 (cloth : alk. paper); 0226470962 (cloth : alk. paper).Subject(s): Socrates | Socrates -- Political and social views | Plato. Protagoras | Plato. Republic | Plato. Charmides | Philosophy, Ancient -- History | Philosophy, Ancient -- Political aspects | Political science -- PhilosophyDDC classification: 184Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Non Fiction | BardBerlinLibrary | 184 Lam 2010 (Browse shelf) | Available |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Philosophy in a time of splendor: Socrates in Periclean Athens before the war, c. 433 -- First words -- Socrates' intentions -- The spectacle of Charmides' entrance -- Critias scripts a play but Socrates takes it over -- Stripping Charmides' soul -- What Critias took from Socrates and what that riddler had in mind -- Should each of the beings become clearly apparent just as it is? -- The final definition of sôphrosunê, Socrates' definition -- The possibility of Socrates' sôphrosunê -- The benefit of Socrates' sôphrosunê -- Socrates judges the inquiry -- Last words -- Who might the auditor of Plato's Charmides be? -- Note on the dramatic date of Charmides -- The Republic: the birth of Platonism -- Socrates' great politics -- The world to which Socrates goes down -- First words -- The compelled and the voluntary -- Learning from Cephalus -- Polemarchus and Socratic justice -- Gentling Thrasymachus -- The state of the young in Athens -- Socrates' new beginning -- New gods -- New philosophers -- New justice in a new soul -- Compulsion and another beginning -- The center of the Republic: the philosopher ruler -- Glaucon, ally of the philosopher's rule -- Platonism: philosophy's political defense and introduction to philosophy -- Public speakers for philosophy -- Images of the greatest study: sun, line, cave -- The last act of the returned Odysseus -- Love and reverence for Homer -- Homer's deed -- Homer's children -- Rewards and prizes for Socrates' children -- Replacing Homer's Hades -- Last words -- Note on the dramatic date of the Republic.
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