Socrates and philosophy in the dialogues of Plato (Record no. 196305)

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Canceled/invalid ISBN 9780521190619 (hbk.)
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Canceled/invalid ISBN 9781139007801 (e-book)
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System control number (OCoLC)710992745
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Classification number B395
Item number .P3865 2011eb
082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 184
Edition number 22
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Peterson, Sandra,
Dates associated with a name 1940-
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Socrates and philosophy in the dialogues of Plato
Medium [electronic resource] /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Sandra Peterson.
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. Cambridge ;
-- New York :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Cambridge University Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2011.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xvi, 293 p.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
505 8# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments; 1. Opposed hypotheses about Plato's dialogues; 2. Socrates in the Apology; 3. Socrates in the digression of the Theaetetus: extraction by declaration; 4. Socrates in the Republic, part I: speech and counter-speech; 5. Socrates in the Republic, part II: philosophers, forms, Glaucon and Adeimantus; 6. Socrates in the Phaedo: another persuasion assignment; 7. Others' conceptions of philosophy in Euthydemus, Lovers, and Sophist; 8. Socrates and Plato in Plato's dialogues; 9. Socrates and philosophy; Bibliography.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. "In Plato's Apology, Socrates says he spent his life examining and questioning people on how best to live, while avowing that he himself knows nothing important. Elsewhere, however, for example in Plato's Republic, Plato's Socrates presents radical and grandiose theses. In this book Sandra Peterson offers a new hypothesis which explains the puzzle of Socrates' two contrasting manners. She argues that the apparently confident doctrinal Socrates is in fact conducting the first step of an examination: by eliciting his interlocutors' reactions, his apparently doctrinal lectures reveal what his interlocutors believe is the best way to live. She tests her hypothesis by close reading of passages in the Theaetetus, Republic and Phaedo. Her provocative conclusion, that there is a single Socrates whose conception and practice of philosophy remain the same throughout the dialogues, will be of interest to a wide range of readers in ancient philosophy and classics"--
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Summary, etc. "The Socrates of some of Plato's dialogues is the avowedly ignorant figure of the Apology who knows nothing important and who gave his life to examining himself and others. In contrast, the Socrates of other dialogues such as the Republic and Phaedo gives confident lectures on topics of which the examining Socrates of the Apology professed ignorance. It is a longstanding puzzle why Socrates acts so differently in different dialogues. To explain the two different manners of Socrates a current widely accepted interpretation of Plato's dialogues offers this two-part, Platocentered, hypothesis: (i) the character Socrates, of the dialogues is always Plato's device for presenting Plato's own views; and (ii) Plato had different views at different times. The Socrates who confidently lectures presents these famous four doctrines: Plato's blueprint for the best state, Plato's "Theory of Forms," Plato's view that philosophy is the knowledge of those Forms that fits the knower for the highest government stations, and Plato's arguments for the immortality of the soul"--
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Type of reproduction Electronic reproduction.
Place of reproduction Palo Alto, Calif. :
Agency responsible for reproduction ebrary,
Date of reproduction 2011.
Note about reproduction Available via World Wide Web.
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600 00 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Plato.
Title of a work Dialogues.
600 00 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Socrates.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Philosophy.
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Genre/form data or focus term Electronic books.
Source of term local
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Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10452912">http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10452912</a>
Public note An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

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