How Socrates became Socrates : a study of Plato's Phaedo, Parmenides, and Symposium /

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Author / Creator:	Lampert, Laurence, 1941- author.
Imprint:	Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021. ©2021
Description:	240 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Socrates. Plato. -- Phaedo. Plato. -- Parmenides. Plato. -- Symposium. Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, -- 1844-1900. Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, -- 1844-1900. Socrates. Parmenides (Plato) Phaedo (Plato) Symposium (Plato)
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12701872

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ISBN:	9780226746333 022674633X 9780226746470
Provenance:	Copy 1. Binding: Includes dust-jacket.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Laurence Lampert is well-known for philosophical studies on Nietzsche, Plato, and Leo Strauss. His work is animated by the notion that Nietzsche is the key figure in Strauss's thought and that Strauss is a Nietzschean in disguise. In How Socrates Became Socrates, Lampert brings his work on Nietzsche into conversation with his work on Plato, showing how the "mature" Socrates is himself a Nietzschean avant la lettre, and that this is how Strauss understands him, bringing to completion a decades-long philosophical project in thrilling fashion"--

Table of Contents:

Introduction
1. Phaedo: The First Stage of Socrates' Philosophic Education
Prologue: Heroic Socrates as the New Ideal
1. First Words
2. A New Theseus to Slay the Real Minotaur
3. A New Herakles to Cut Off and Bury the Immortal Head of Hydra
4. A New Odysseus to Teach the Safe Way to Understand Cause
5. Odyssean Socrates' Report on His Second Sailing in the Phaedo Measured by the Parmenides
6. Odyssean Socrates Ends His Life of Argument
7. Socrates' Last Words: Gratitude for a Healing
2. Parmenides: The Second Stage of Socrates' Philosophic Education
Prologue: A Socrates for the Philosophically Driven
1. First Words
2. At Pythodorus's House during the Great Panathenaia
3. Socrates and Zeno: How to Read a Philosophic Writing
4. Socrates' Solution to What Parmenides and Zeno Made to Seem beyond Us
5. Parmenides the Guide
6. What Is This Gymnastic?
7. Guiding Socrates
8. Last Words
9. The Socratic Turn
3. The Symposium: The Final Stage of Socrates' Philosophic Education
Prologue: Socrates' Ontological Psychology
1. First Words
2. Socrates Beautifies Himself for Agathon
3. Diotima's Myth Guides Socrates to the Third Stage of His Philosophic Education
4. Diotima's Logos Guides Socrates to the Third Stage of His Philosophic Education
5. Diotima Teaches Socrates What to Teach
6. Alcibiades Arrives
7. Last Words
Note on the Dramatic Date of the Frame of the Symposium
Conclusion: Plato in a Nietzschean History of Philosophy
Works Cited
Index

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