Traditionally, Socrates has been linked to the view of reason as
the most important element in human behavior, the means through
which our irrational capacities are tamed. Yet, one might ask, if
his legacy were solely derived from his having been a master
reasoner, why would he have been able to maintain his place in our
imaginations for so long? In Socrates and the Irrational, James
Hans argues that when Socrates speaks for himself, he reveals a far
more complex portrait of the nature of human existence than the
Platonic conception of him has conveyed. Exploring Socratic thought
through four key dialogues--the Ion, the Apology, the Phaedrus, and
the Republic--Hans offers a larger vision of both Socrates and
human potential that goes beyond the reductive placement of reason
on the side of the good and unreason on the side of the bad.
Embracing Socrates' reverence for poets, his reliance on feeling
and intuition, his attitude toward death, and his defense of
prophecy and love, Hans shows how thoroughly the Socratic idea of
reason is based on the affective aspects of bodily existence that
traditional approaches to his thought ignore. For those who have a
philosophical interest in the foundation of Western thought as well
as those whose interests in the humanities encompass the nature of
the examined life, Socrates and the Irrational is both an
accessible and an erudite journey into the mind of this central
figure of our civilization.
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