Socrates Request and the Educational Narrative of the Timaeus

This book addresses the relevance of Timaeus's cosmology to Socrates' request for a speech about war. Charles Ives finds relevance in the dialogue's concern for education apropos of the medical dimensions of Timaeus' physics, the project of becoming like god, and the philosophical soul responsible for success on the battlefield.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Socrates' Request: Encomium, Education, and War
2. The Educational Program of the Timaeus in Outline: Medicine, Cause, and the Tripartite Structure of Timaeus' Speech
3. Framing the Educational Narrative: Becoming Like God in Two Tasks
4. Motivating Education: Incarnation and Becoming Emphron
5. The Intellectual for the Sake of the Psycho-Political: Applied Mathematics, Force, and the Two Senses of Philosophia
6. Epilogue: Philosophy and the Warrior

About the author

Charles Ives

Summary

This book addresses the relevance of Timaeus’s cosmology to Socrates’ request for a speech about war. Charles Ives finds relevance in the dialogue’s concern for education apropos of the medical dimensions of Timaeus’ physics, the project of becoming like god, and the philosophical soul responsible for success on the battlefield.

Product details

• Authors: Charles Ives, Ives Charles
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9781498528504
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-2850-4
• No. of pages: 128
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, ancient philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500