Socratic Wisdom

Socratic Wisdom
Title Socratic Wisdom PDF eBook
Author Hugh H. Benson
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 298
Release 2000
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9780195129182

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While the early Platonic dialogues have often been explored and appreciated for their ethical content, this is the first book devoted solely to the epistemology of Plato's early dialogues. Author Hugh H. Benson argues that the characteristic features of these dialogues--Socrates' method of questions and answers (elenchos), his fascination with definition, his professions of ignorance, and his thesis that virtue is knowledge--are decidedly epistemological. In this thoughtful study, Benson uncovers the model of knowledge that underlies these distinctively Socratic views. What emerges is unfamiliar, yet closer to a contemporary conception of scientific understanding than ordinary knowledge.

Socratic Wisdom : The Model of Knowledge in Plato's Early Dialogues

Socratic Wisdom : The Model of Knowledge in Plato's Early Dialogues
Title Socratic Wisdom : The Model of Knowledge in Plato's Early Dialogues PDF eBook
Author Hugh H. Benson Professor of Philosophy University of Oklahoma
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 314
Release 2000-01-05
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9780199771240

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While the early Platonic dialogues have often been explored and appreciated for their ethical content, this is the first book devoted solely to the epistemology of Plato's early dialogues. Author Hugh H. Benson argues that the characteristic features of these dialogues--Socrates' method of questions and answers (elenchos), his fascination with definition, his professions of ignorance, and his thesis that virtue is knowledge--are decidedly epistemological. In this thoughtful study, Benson uncovers the model of knowledge that underlies these distinctively Socratic views. What emerges is unfamiliar, yet closer to a contemporary conception of scientific understanding than ordinary knowledge.

Early Socratic Dialogues

Early Socratic Dialogues
Title Early Socratic Dialogues PDF eBook
Author Emlyn-Jones Chris
Publisher Penguin UK
Pages 400
Release 2005-06-30
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0141914076

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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.

Knowledge and Politics in Plato's Theaetetus

Knowledge and Politics in Plato's Theaetetus
Title Knowledge and Politics in Plato's Theaetetus PDF eBook
Author Paul Stern
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 0
Release 2012-10-04
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9781107407923

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The Theaetetus is one of the most widely studied of any of the Platonic dialogues because its dominant theme concerns the significant philosophical question, what is knowledge? In this new interpretation of the Theaetetus, Paul Stern provides the first full-length treatment of its political character in relationship to this dominant theme. Stern argues that this approach sheds significant light on the distinctiveness of the Socratic way of life, with respect to both its initial justification and its ultimate character.

Meno

Meno
Title Meno PDF eBook
Author Plató
Publisher Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages 0
Release 2015-04-28
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9781511939546

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Now that Meno has been made to understand the nature of a general definition, he answers in the spirit of a Greek gentleman, and in the words of a poet, 'that virtue is to delight in things honourable, and to have the power of getting them.' This is a nearer approximation than he has yet made to a complete definition, and, regarded as a piece of proverbial or popular morality, is not far from the truth. But the objection is urged, 'that the honourable is the good, ' and as every one equally desires the good, the point of the definition is contained in the words, 'the power of getting them.' 'And they must be got justly or with justice.' The definition will then stand thus: 'Virtue is the power of getting good with justice.' But justice is a part of virtue, and therefore virtue is the getting of good with a part of virtue. The definition repeats the word defined

Plato's Theaetetus as a Second Apology

Plato's Theaetetus as a Second Apology
Title Plato's Theaetetus as a Second Apology PDF eBook
Author Zina Giannopoulou
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 216
Release 2013-06-27
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0199695296

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Zina Giannopoulou offers a new reading of Theaetetus, Plato's most systematic examination of knowledge, alongside Apology, Socrates' speech in defence of his philosophical practice, and argues that the former text is a philosophical elaboration of the latter.

Virtue Is Knowledge

Virtue Is Knowledge
Title Virtue Is Knowledge PDF eBook
Author Lorraine Smith Pangle
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 287
Release 2014-05-23
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 022613668X

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The relation between virtue and knowledge is at the heart of the Socratic view of human excellence, but it also points to a central puzzle of the Platonic dialogues: Can Socrates be serious in his claims that human excellence is constituted by one virtue, that vice is merely the result of ignorance, and that the correct response to crime is therefore not punishment but education? Or are these assertions mere rhetorical ploys by a notoriously complex thinker? Lorraine Smith Pangle traces the argument for the primacy of virtue and the power of knowledge throughout the five dialogues that feature them most prominently—the Apology, Gorgias, Protagoras, Meno, and Laws—and reveals the truth at the core of these seemingly strange claims. She argues that Socrates was more aware of the complex causes of human action and of the power of irrational passions than a cursory reading might suggest. Pangle’s perceptive analyses reveal that many of Socrates’s teachings in fact explore the factors that make it difficult for humans to be the rational creatures that he at first seems to claim. Also critical to Pangle’s reading is her emphasis on the political dimensions of the dialogues. Underlying many of the paradoxes, she shows, is a distinction between philosophic and civic virtue that is critical to understanding them. Ultimately, Pangle offers a radically unconventional way of reading Socrates’s views of human excellence: Virtue is not knowledge in any ordinary sense, but true virtue is nothing other than wisdom.