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Descent of Socrates [electronic resource] : self-knowledge and cryptic nature in the Platonic dialogues / Peter Warnek.

By: Warnek, Peter A, 1962-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Series: Studies in Continental thought: Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2005Description: xix, 234 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Socrates | Plato. DialoguesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 184 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Reading Plato with a difference : Socrates, beautiful, and new -- Socrates and the retreat of nature : suffering a simple teacher of ethics -- The purest thinker of the West and the older accusations in the Apology -- The good, the bad, and the ugly : nature, rhetoric, and refutation in the Gorgias -- Silenic wisdom in the Apology and Phaedo -- Teiresias in Athens : Socrates as educator in the Meno -- Typhonic eros and the place of the Phaedrus -- Truth and friendship.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-228) and index.

Reading Plato with a difference : Socrates, beautiful, and new -- Socrates and the retreat of nature : suffering a simple teacher of ethics -- The purest thinker of the West and the older accusations in the Apology -- The good, the bad, and the ugly : nature, rhetoric, and refutation in the Gorgias -- Silenic wisdom in the Apology and Phaedo -- Teiresias in Athens : Socrates as educator in the Meno -- Typhonic eros and the place of the Phaedrus -- Truth and friendship.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.