Socrates

Name: Socrates
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ISBN: 9781405150866

ISBN-10: 1405150866

ISBN-13: 9781405150866

Edition: 2009

Authors: George Rudebusch

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Can we learn, through the model of Socrates, practical wisdom that we can apply to our lives? What are we to make of the paradoxical and strange figure who claimed that the unexamined life is not worth living, that only knowledge can save our souls, that love is nothing but the desire for wisdom, and that knowledge of human excellence is such that only a god can possess it?Protesting against traditional interpretations that tame the ancient philosopher by observing him through a lens of conventional wisdom, George Rudebusch's Socrates presents a compelling case for taking Socrates' arguments and wild conclusions seriously, not merely as abstract exercises in cross examining ideas of human…

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List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Limited
Publication date: 9/11/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.05" wide x 9.05" long x 0.78" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



acknowledgments


translations used


introduction


the ion



interpreting socrates


the apology



mission from god



puzzling notoriety


the protagoras



bravery



knowledge rules


the laches



bravery again



puzzling pedagogy


the lysis



love


the euthydemus



luck


the meno



desire


book 1 of the republic



benevolence



happiness



freedom


the euthyphro



reverence


the crito



world religion


the phaedo



last words


epilogue: Socrates or plato?


index of passages cited


general index