Apologizing for Socrates : how Plato and Xenophon created our Socrates / Gabriel Danzig.

By:

Danzig, Gabriel, 1961-

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780739132463
0739132466

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Apologizing for Socrates.DDC classification:

183/.2 22

LOC classification:

B317

Other classification:

CD 3067
CD 3367
5,1

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Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Acknowledgments; Chapter One:Plato and Xenophon on Socrates' Behavior in Court (Be Apologies); Chapter Two:Building a Community under Fire (Crito); Chapter Three: Disgracing Meletus (Euthyphro); Chapter Four: Xenophon's Socratic Seductions (Memorabilia); Chapter Five: Plato's Socratic Seductions (Lysis); Chapter Six: Why Socrates Was Not a Farmer: Xenophon's Apology for Socrates in Oeconomicus; Bibliography.

Summary: Apologizing for Socrates places some of the Platonic and Xenophontic writings in the context of contemporary controversies over Socrates, providing a perspective in which many of the philosophic and literary features of the text can be explained. In addition, it sheds light on the apologetic techniques used by Plato and Xenophon.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-274) and index.

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Apologizing for Socrates places some of the Platonic and Xenophontic writings in the context of contemporary controversies over Socrates, providing a perspective in which many of the philosophic and literary features of the text can be explained. In addition, it sheds light on the apologetic techniques used by Plato and Xenophon.

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