Socrates and the Socratic Philosophies
Book description
How to face the Socratic riddle? This book offers some clues to address the problem of Socrates and the Socratic philosophies from different perspectives that include the problem of Socrates and the Socratic environment, Plato's Socrates, the Socratic lines, with special attention to Antisthenes, the Megarics, the Cyrenaics, Xenophon and…
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It really helps to read collections like this to get the broadest possible view of a historical figure who refuses to come into focus.
There is just enough work on Plato in this collection to allow me to remind myself of the comparisons possible in this very diverse literature and to see so clearly how the very idea of Socrates resonates in so many cultures and languages. Why did someone who wrote nothing inspire so many others to write about him?
From Nicholas' list on Socrates as he is depicted by authors other than Plato.
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