How Socrates Became Socrates - A Study of Plato?s ?Phaedo,? ?Parmenides,? and ?Symposium?

"Laurence Lampert is well-known for philosophical studies on Nietzsche, Plato, and Leo Strauss. His work is animated by the notion that Nietzsche is the key figure in Strauss's thought and that Strauss is a Nietzschean in disguise. In How Socrates Became Socrates, Lampert brings his work on Nietzsche into conversation with his work on Plato, showing how the "mature" Socrates is himself a Nietzschean avant la lettre, and that this is how Strauss understands him, bringing to completion a decades-long philosophical project in thrilling fashion"--

About the author

Laurence Lampert is professor emeritus of philosophy from Indiana University--Purdue University Indianapolis. He has published several books including Leo Strauss and Nietzsche, How Philosophy Became Socratic: A Study of Plato's "Protagoras," "Charmides," and "Republic, "The Enduring Importance of Leo Strauss, and What a Philosopher Is: Becoming Nietzsche, all with the University of Chicago Press.

Product details

• Authors: Laurence Lampert, Lampert Laurence
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9780226746333
• ISBN: 978-0-226-74633-3
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500