Dialectic in Action - An Examination of Plato's Crito

Informationen zum Autor Michael C. Stokes was Emeritus Professor of Greek at Durham University. He also taught at Balliol (Oxford) and at Edinburgh, Cornell and Newcastle Universities. His previous writings include One and Many in Presocratic Philosophy (1971), Plato’s Socratic Conversations: Drama and Dialectic in Three Dialogues (1986), and Plato’s Apology (1997). Vorwort Plato's Crito examines a single moral decision, whether Socrates ought to escape from his death-cell. Stokes's book discusses Socrates' arguments against Crito's offer of escape. It construes Socrates' questions as genuine questions, which clarify and undermine Critos positions. Zusammenfassung Plato's Crito examines a single moral decision, whether Socrates ought to escape from his death-cell. Stokes's book discusses Socrates' arguments against Crito's offer of escape. It construes Socrates' questions as genuine questions, which clarify and undermine Critos positions.

Product details

• Authors: Michael C Stokes, Michael C. Stokes
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2005
• EAN: 9780954384593
• ISBN: 978-0-9543845-9-3
• No. of pages: 246
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies