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Socrates, Ironist and Moral Philosopher (Paperback, New)
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Socrates, Ironist and Moral Philosopher (Paperback, New)
Series: Cornell Studies in Classical Philology
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This vivid and compelling study of Socrates's moral philosophy and,
more generally, of his moral outlook and his attitude toward
religion and society, reclaims the remarkable originality of his
thought. Gregory Vlastos shows us a Socrates who, though he has
been long overshadowed by his successors, Plato and Aristotle,
represented the true turning point in Greek attitude toward
philosophy, religion, and ethics. In his quest for the historical
Socrates, Vlastos focuses on Plato's earlier dialogues, setting the
Socrates we find there in sharp contrast to the Socrates of later
dialogues, in which he is used as a mouthpiece for Plato's own
doctrines, many of them anti-Socratic in nature. At the heart of
the book is Vlastos's perception of the paradoxical nature of
Socratic thought. But Vlastos explains the paradoxes rather than
explaining them away, and he highlights the tensions in the
Socratic search for the answer to the question: How should we live?
The magnetic quality of Socrates' personality emerges throughout
his book. Clearly and elegantly written, subtle in its arguments
yet entirely accessible to non-specialists, this is major work in
ancient philosophy and the history of Western thought.
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