E-Book, Englisch, 289 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Kirkland The Ontology of Socratic Questioning in Plato's Early Dialogues
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4384-4405-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
E-Book, Englisch, 289 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
ISBN: 978-1-4384-4405-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
A provocative close reading revealing a radical, proto-phenomenological Socrates.
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
Weitere Infos & Material
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations for Ancient Works Cited
Introduction: Socrates and the Hermeneutic of Estrangement
PART I. SOCRATIC PHENOMENOLOGY
1. Setting Aside the Subject-Object Framework in Reading Plato
Aristotelian Assessments of Plato’s Socrates
Construction or Destruction in the Early Dialogues
From Excessive Being to Objective Reality and Back
Articulating Plato’s Anti-Relativism
Distinguishing Socrates’ Search for Definitions from Twentieth-Century Nominalism
Excavating the Everyday Understanding of Being in Plato
Consequences of Presupposing an Understanding of Being as Objective
2. On Doxa as the Appearing of ‘What Is”
Doxa versus Opinion
Phainesthai and Doxa
PART II. VIRTUE’S ONTOLOGICAL EXCESS AND DISTANCE
3. The Excessive Truth of Socratic Discourse
The Indefinsibility of Philosophy in Plato’s Apology of Socrates
Socrates’ Muthos
Socrates’ Logos
The Prooimioni to Socrates’ Apologia
The Rhetorical Discourse of Socrates’ Accusers
Socrates’ Way of Discourse in His Defense
Socratic Truth as Deinos
Socrates’ Way of Discourse in His Philosophical Activity
4. The Sheltering of Thechne versus the Exposure of Human Wisdom
Socrates versus the Sophists
From Shelter to Exposure
The Techne-Tuche Antithesis
The Socratic Understanding of Techne in Light of Metaphysics Alpha
The Non-Knowing of Virtue as Socrates’ Aim
Socrates and the Techne-Model of Virtue
5. The Truthful Elenctic Pathos of Painful Concern
Elenctic Pain and Being Concerned by Virtue
Melete in the Apology and Aporia throughout the Early Dialogues
A Phenomenological Consideration of Melete/Aporia
Serenity in the Interpretations of Nehamas, Vlastos, and the Stoics
Melete/Aporia as Itself the Aletheia of ‘What Virtue Is’
Distance and Excess versus Transcendence of Immanence
PART III. SOCRATIC VIRTUE IN THE FACE OF EXCESSIVE TRUTH
6. The Courage of Virtue and the Distant Horizon of the Whole in the Laches
Finite Transcendence and Socratic “Being With”
Sophistication and the Everyday Attitude in the Introduction of the Two Generals
The Unity of the Question ‘What is Virtue?’
Being Many Everyday
Aristotle on Socrates and Definition Katholou
Meno 71d–73d
Euthyphro 5c–7a
Socrates’ Interlocutors and the Confusion of Appearance and Being
Aporia and the Truth of Appearances
The Socratic Here and Now
CONCLUSION: APORIA IN THE MIDDLE DIALOGUES
Idea/Eidos as ‘Look’ and Phenomenal Being in the Middle Dialogues
Aletheia as Divine Wandering
The Good beyond Being and the Ideas as Excessive Measures
Human Monstrosity and Being between One and Many
Notes
Bibliography
Index