The Ontology of Socratic Questioning in Plato's Early Dialogues

Informationen zum Autor Sean D. Kirkland is Associate Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. Klappentext A provocative close reading revealing a radical, proto-phenomenological Socrates. Modern interpreters of Platos Socrates have generally taken the dialogues to be aimed at working out objective truth. Attending closely to the texts of the early dialogues and the question of virtue in particular, Sean D. Kirkland suggests that this approach is flawedthat such concern with discovering external facts rests on modern assumptions that would have been far from the minds of Socrates and his contemporaries. This isnt, however, to accuse Socrates of any kind of relativism. Through careful analysis of the original Greek and of a range of competing strands of Plato scholarship, Kirkland instead brings to light a radical, proto-phenomenological Socrates, for whom what virtue is is what has always already appeared as virtuous in everyday experience of the world, even if initial appearances are unsatisfactory or obscure and in need of greater scrutiny and clarification.

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• Authors: Sean D Kirkland, Sean D. Kirkland, Kirkland Sean D.
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2012
• EAN: 9781438444031
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-4403-1
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 238 mm x 25 mm
• Series: SUNY Series in Contemporary Co; SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy; Suny Ancient Greek Philosophy; SUNY series in Ancient Greek Philosophy
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; PHILOSOPHY / General, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500