Plato''s Hippias Minor - The Play of Ambiguity

This book examines Plato's most puzzling dialogue, Hippias Minor, in detail, treating Socrates' engagement with both Homer and the sophist Hippias over human excellence as at once playful and deadly serious.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Socrates on Homer, Part 1: 364b3-365d5
Chapter 2: ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ in Action: 365d6-366c4
Chapter 3: Calculated Deception: 366c5-369c2
Chapter 4: Socrates on Homer, Part 2: 369b8-371e5
Chapter 5: "If in fact there is such a person"; 372b-End
Conclusions
Epilogue: The Influence of the Hippias Minor on Aristotle's Ethics
Bibliography

About the author

By Zenon Culverhouse

Summary

This book examines Plato's most puzzling dialogue, Hippias Minor, in detail, treating Socrates' engagement with both Homer and the sophist Hippias over human excellence as at once playful and deadly serious.

Product details

• Authors: Zenon Culverhouse
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9781793611215
• ISBN: 978-1-79361-121-5
• No. of pages: 142
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: plays and playwrights