Socrates and Philosophy in the Dialogues of Plato

by Sandra Peterson

Book Overview

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 hypothesis which explains the puzzle of Socrates' two contrasting manners. She argues that the apparently confident doctrinal Socrates is in fact...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107667992
• ISBN13: 9781107667990
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"