Remembering Socrates

ArenaBG presents

Remembering Socrates: Philosophical Essays
Lindsay Judson, Vassilis Karasmanis

Oxford University Press, USA
January 21, 2006


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.


http://www.amazon.com/Remembering-Socrates-Phil.../0199276137
Hardcover: 226 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (January 21, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0199276137
ISBN-13: 978-0199276134
Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 0.9 inches