How Socrates became Socrates : a study of Plato's Phaedo, Parmenides, and Symposium /
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| Author / Creator: | Lampert, Laurence, 1941- author. |
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| Imprint: | Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (240 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12519436 |
| Summary: | Plato dispersed his account of how Socrates became Socrates across three dialogues. Thus, Plato rendered his becoming discoverable only to readers truly invested. In How Socrates Became Socrates , Laurence Lampert recognizes the path of Plato's strides and guides us through the true account of Socrates' becoming. He divulges how and why Plato ordered his Phaedo , Parmenides , and Symposium chronologically to give readers access to Socrates' development on philosophy's fundamental questions of being and knowing.<br> <br> In addition to a careful and precise analysis of Plato's Phaedo, Parmenides, and Symposium, Lampert shows that properly entwined, Plato's three dialogues fuse to portray a young thinker entering philosophy's true radical power. Lampert reveals why this radicality needed to be guarded and places this discussion within the greater scheme of the politics of philosophy.<br> |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 pages) |
| ISBN: | 022674647X 9780226746470 |