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 by Xenophon; the notion of definition; Socrates' intellectualist conception of ethics; famous arguments in the Euthyphro and Crito, and a not-so famous argument in the Hippias Major; and aspects of the later portrayal and reception of Socrates as a philosophical and ethical exemplar - by Plato, the Sceptics, and in the early Christian era. The collection demonstrates the vitality as well as the diversity of Socratic studies, and will interest many ancient philosophers, historians of philosophy, and classicists.
Reviews
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 *



Book Information
ISBN 9780199276134
Author Lindsay Judson
Format Hardback
Page Count 216
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 488g
Dimensions(mm) 242mm * 163mm * 18mm