Plato's Cleitophon (eBook)

On Socrates and the Modern Mind

Mark Kremer (Herausgeber)

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2004
100 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-5892-0 (ISBN)

Infos

The Cleitophon has recently been discovered to be Plato's dialogue introducingThe Republic. In this volume of essays, Editor, Translator, and Author Mark Kremer introduces seminal work that understands The Cleitophon as an ancient discussion of what scholars today refer to as posthumanism and postmodernism. Thoroughly original, this volume is an invaluable resource to all disciplines that attempt to come to terms with our emerging global society.

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It had been thought that theCleitophon was a spurious dialogue. Its brevity and the fact that Socrates does not respond to accusations from Cleitophon suggested to scholars that it was only a fragment. However, in the last fifteen years, the complete and authentic dialogue was rediscovered. Upon its discovery, scholars have almost universally agreed that the Cleitophon is the introduction to Plato'sRepublic. In Plato's Cleitophon: On Socrates and the Modern Mind editor, translator, and author, Mark Kremer, has mined some of the best scholarship on the relationship of Plato's Cleitophon and its relationship to modern thought. It is the contention of the editor that the Cleitophon, is an ancient example of the psychic, social, cultural, and moral strain that is put upon the citizens of a republic when their society begins to erode on all fronts. This work has the potential to afford readers an ancient perspective on ourselves by showing us how we appear in Plato's mind. It should be read by anyone who has ever read Plato'sRepublic; as well as anyone who is concerned about the social, psychic, cultural, and moral effects of postmodernity and globalization.

Autor

Mark Kremer is Assistant Professor of Social Science at Boston University.

Inhalt

Chapter 1 Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 Note on Translation Chapter 4 Cleitophon Chapter 5 Interpretive Essay: Socratic Philosophy and the Cleitophon Chapter 6 Chapter 2 Chapter 7 The Riddle of the Cleitophon 8 On the Cleitophon 9 Socratic Teaching and Justice: Plato's Clitophon

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.4.2004
• Reihe/Serie: Applications of Political Theory
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 0-7391-5892-9 / 0739158929
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-5892-0 / 9780739158920