Socrates? Search for Wisdom
An Exegetical Theory
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 16 June 2025
- ISBN 9780367408633
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages352 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 453 g
- Language English 700
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Short description:
Socrates recommends that we live examined lives, but what exactly does that mean? Should we criticise and dismantle our moral convictions? Or construct theories of virtue and the good? This book argues that the answer is neither?the best human life is one of moral learning in which we actualise our potential for knowledge.
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Socrates urges us to examine our lives, but what exactly does that mean? Should we question our moral convictions, or construct theories of virtue and the good? This book argues for a third path?the best human life is one of moral learning, in which we actualise our potential for wisdom.
Readers will gain a fresh perspective on the Socratic method?not as mere argument, but as a process of inquiry. The author develops an exegetical model of dialogue and shows its fidelity to Plato?s texts. He then situates this model in the scholarly literature and uses it to clarify several puzzling features of Socrates? approach. The result is a deeper understanding of Socrates? method and his philosophical life.
Socrates? Search for Wisdom: An Exegetical Theory will appeal to scholars, students of Greek philosophy, and general readers, continuing the Socratic tradition of engaging both specialists and non-specialists alike.
"Descriptions of Plato?s Socrates as seeking to refute his interlocutors or to construct arguments for certain doctrines from the wreckage of their contradictory beliefs seem to miss the key point: that Socrates is inquiring and seeking to get his interlocutors to inquire. The present book provides a new interpretation of Socrates? method that does justice to this point and thus to Socrates? emphatic claim that the only life worth living is the examined one." - Francisco Gonzalez, University of Ottawa
"This book offers an original and plausible interpretation of Socrates? practice in a significant subset of Plato?s dialogues?no small feat!" - Hugh Benson, University of Oklahoma
MoreTable of Contents:
Preface
Part 1
Introduction
1. Method of Interpreting Plato
2. Argument and Inquiry
Part 2
3. Euthyphro
4. Laches
5. Nicias
6. Charmides
7. Critias
8. Cephalus and Polemarchus
9. Thrasymachus
10. Meno
Part 3
11. The Socratic Elenchus
12. Socrates? Method in Definition
13. The Priority of Definition
14. Virtue is Knowledge
Part 4
15. Conceptions of Virtue
16. Socrates Works on Euthyphro?s Knowledge of Piety
17. Socrates Works on Laches? Knowledge of Courage
18. Socrates? Works on Charmides? Knowledge of Temperance
Part 5
19. Socrates and Apollo
20. Socrates after Delphi
Part 6
Conclusion
Index
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