Conversations Of Socrates

Author : Xenophon
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141915447
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversations of Socrates written by Xenophon and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2004-02-05 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the execution of Socrates in 399 BC, a number of his followers wrote dialogues featuring him as the protagonist and, in so doing, transformed the great philosopher into a legendary figure. Xenophon's portrait is the only one other than Plato's to survive, and while it offers a very personal interpretation of Socratic thought, it also reveals much about the man and his philosophical views. In 'Socrates' Defence' Xenophon defends his mentor against charges of arrogance made at his trial, while the 'Memoirs of Socrates' also starts with an impassioned plea for the rehabilitation of a wronged reputation. Along with 'The Estate-Manager', a practical economic treatise, and 'The Dinner-Party', a sparkling exploration of love, Xenophon's dialogues offer fascinating insights into the Socratic world and into the intellectual atmosphere and daily life of ancient Greece.

Author : Emlyn-Jones Chris
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141914076
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early Socratic Dialogues written by Emlyn-Jones Chris and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-06-30 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich in drama and humour, they include the controversial Ion, a debate on poetic inspiration; Laches, in which Socrates seeks to define bravery; and Euthydemus, which considers the relationship between philosophy and politics. Together, these dialogues provide a definitive portrait of the real Socrates and raise issues still keenly debated by philosophers, forming an incisive overview of Plato's philosophy.

Author : Xenophon
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 014044517X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversations of Socrates written by Xenophon and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1990-07-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the execution of Socrates in 399 BC, a number of his followers wrote dialogues featuring him as the protagonist and, in so doing, transformed the great philosopher into a legendary figure. Xenophon's portrait is the only one other than Plato's to survive, and while it offers a very personal interpretation of Socratic thought, it also reveals much about the man and his philosophical views. In 'Socrates' Defence' Xenophon defends his mentor against charges of arrogance made at his trial, while the 'Memoirs of Socrates' also starts with an impassioned plea for the rehabilitation of a wronged reputation. Along with 'The Estate-Manager', a practical economic treatise, and 'The Dinner-Party', a sparkling exploration of love, Xenophon's dialogues offer fascinating insights into the Socratic world and into the intellectual atmosphere and daily life of ancient Greece.

Author : Xenophon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates written by Xenophon and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jay Farness
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271074892
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Missing Socrates written by Jay Farness and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1991-04-08 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plato's conversations of Socrates are among the most accessible philosophical texts most of us have ever read, yet the more one pursues the art or intelligibility of this writing, the more mysterious and paradoxical the Platonic texts become. What does it mean to study Plato, not philosophically as a maker of arguments, not poetically as a maker of dialogues, but literally as a maker of texts? This is a question that Jacques Derrida has made his own, and in this book Farness creates a dialogue with Derrida on Plato's texts. Missing Socrates also provides a dialogue between Plato and Socrates on the question of speech versus writing and a study of the materiality of Plato's writing. Included among the various dialogues and themes developed here are rhetoric and courtroom practice in the Apology of Socrates; religion, skepticism, and the idea of transcendence in the Euthyphro; artistic practice and tradition in the Ion; education and political discipline in the Charmides; and rhetoric, writing, commemoration, and the motives of authorship in Phaedrus. In each of these discursive settings, Socrates unsuccessfully seeks a place or a mode for philosophy; Farness shows that the dialogues of Plato uncannily supply that lack.

Author : Owen Francis Grazebrook
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Socrates Among His Peers written by Owen Francis Grazebrook and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Neal K. Grossman
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789041449
Total Pages : 870 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Socrates and Plato written by Neal K. Grossman and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-26 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An imaginary, extended dialogue with Plato, Socrates, Spinoza and William James presents philosophical ideas that have never been more relevant for Western civilization. Neal K. Grossman discusses how a post-materialist social order can solve the challenges of modern life, and insure our survival.

Author : Eric Metaxas
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 : 0452298652
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life, God, and Other Small Topics written by Eric Metaxas and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the extraordinary success of the "New York Times" bestseller "Bonhoeffer," Metaxas' latest book offers inspirational and intellectually rigorous thoughts about the great questions surrounding us all today.

Author : Donald R. Morrison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521833426
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Socrates written by Donald R. Morrison and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays from a diverse group of experts providing a comprehensive guide to Socrates, the most famous Greek philosopher.

Author : A. G. Long
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199695350
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversation and Self-Sufficiency in Plato written by A. G. Long and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A. G. Long presents a new account of the importance of conversation in Plato's philosophy. He provides close studies of eight dialogues, including some of Plato's most famous works, and traces the emergence of internal dialogue or self-questioning as an alternative to the Socratic conversation from which Plato starts.