The Socratic Individual: Philosophy, Faith, and Freedom in a Democratic Age

by Ann Ward

Book Overview

The author explores the recovery of Socratic philosophy in the political thought of G.W.F. Hegel, Soren Kierkegaard, John Stuart Mill, and Friedrich Nietzsche. Ward identifies the cause of the renewed interest in Socrates in Hegel's call for the absorption of the individual within the modern, liberal state and the concomitant claim that Socratic skepticism should cease because history has reached its end and perfection. Recoiling from Hegel's attempt...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1793603790
• ISBN13: 9781793603791
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"