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Socrates: A Very Short Introduction

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Socrates has a unique position in the history of philosophy. It is no exaggeration to say that had it not been for his influence on Plato, the whole development of Western philosophy might have bee unimaginably different. Yet Socrates wrote nothing himself, and our knowledge of him is derived primarily from the engaging and infuriating figure who appears in Plato's dialogues. In this book, Christopher Taylor explores the relationship between the historical Socrates and the Platonic character, and examines the enduring image of Socrates as the ideal exemplar of the philosophic life - a thinker whose moral and intellectual integrity permeated every detail of his life, even in the face of betrayal and execution by his fellow Athenians.

Author: Taylor C.C.W.
Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pages: 122
ISBN: 9780192854124
Cover: Paperback
Edition Number: 1
Release Year: 2000

Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Life: Trial and Death; 3. Socratic Literature and the Socratic Problem: i. Authors other than Plato; ii. Plato; 4. Plato's Socrates: i. Socrates' disavowal of wisdom; ii. Definition; iii. Ethics; iv. Socrates and the Sophists; 5. Socrates and Later Philosophy: i. Ancient Philosophy; ii. Medieval and Modern Philosophy; 6. Conclusion; Endnotes; Further Reading; Index.

Christopher Taylor is Emeritus fellow at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford. He read the B.Phil in Philosophy at Oxford before becoming a Fellow by Examination at Magdalen College from 1962 to 1963, and a Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Corpus Christi College from 1963 until his retirement in 2003. He is the author of several books, including Pleasure, Mind, and Soul: Selected Papers in Ancient Philosophy (OUP 2008), and has translated a number of texts, including Plato's Protagoras, and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. He was the Editor of Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy from 1993 to 1998.

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