Becoming Socrates (eBook)

Political Philosophy in Plato's &quote;Parmenides&quote;

Alex Priou (Autor)

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2018
256 Seiten
Boydell & Brewer (Verlag)
9781787441972 (ISBN)

Infos

A rigorous investigation of Socrates' early education, pinpointing the thought that led Socrates to turn from natural science to the study of morality, ethics, and politicsPlato's Parmenides is regarded as a canonical work in ontology. Depicting a conversation between Parmenides of Elea and a young Socrates, the dialogue presents a rigorous examination of Socrates' theory of the forms, the most influential account of being in the philosophic tradition. In this commentary on the Parmenides, Alex Priou argues that the dialogue is, in actuality, a reflection on politics. Priou begins from the accepted view that the conversation consists of two discrete parts -- a critique of the forms, followed by Socrates' philosophical training -- but finds a unity to the dialogue yet to be acknowledged. By paying careful attention to what Parmenides calls the "e;greatest impasse"e; facing Socrates' ontology, Priou reveals a political context to the conversation. The need in society for order and good rule includes the need, at a more fundamental level, for an adequate andefficacious explanation of being. Recounting here how a young Socrates first learned of the primacy of political philosophy, which would become the hallmark of his life, Becoming Socrates shows that political philosophy, and not ontology, is "e;first philosophy."e; Alex Priou is an instructor in the Herbst Program in the Humanities in Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments
The Problem of the Parmenides
Parmenides on Socrates' "Platonism": "Parmenides" 126a1-137c4
Parmenides on Eleatic Monism: "Parmenides" 137c4-166c5
The Problem of Socrates
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.3.2018
• Verlagsort: Rochester
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: Benardete • Dialectic • Dialectics • Dialogue • Eponymy • Francis Cornford • God • logic of despair • Miller Mitchell • Nature • Parmenides • participate • Participation • Poetry • Political Philosophy • political theory • principle of intelligibility • Reginald Allen • rhetoric • Seth Benardete • SOCRATIC TURN • Stewart Umphrey • twin demands of rule
• ISBN-13: 9781787441972 / 9781787441972