Way of the Platonic Socrates
Way of the Platonic Socrates Who is Socrates? In this book, S. While most readers know him as the central figure in Plato's work, he is hard to characterize. Reading Socrates against a number of…
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Way of the Platonic Socrates
Who is Socrates? In this book, S. While most readers know him as the central figure in Plato's work, he is hard to characterize.
Reading Socrates against a number of Platonic texts, Ewegen sets out to understand the way of Socrates. Montgomery Ewegen opens this long-standing and difficult question once again. Taking on the nuances and contours of the Socrates that emerges from the dramatic and philosophical contexts of Plato's works, Ewegen considers questions of withdrawal, retreat, powerlessness, poverty, concealment, and release and how they construct a new view of Socrates.
For Ewegen, Socrates is a powerful but strange and uncanny figure. Ewegen's withdrawn Socrates forever evades rigid interpretation and must instead remain a deep and insoluble