Guardians on Trial (eBook)

The Reading Order of Plato's Dialogues from Euthyphro to Phaedo

William H. F. Altman (Autor)

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2016
638 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-2952-5 (ISBN)

Infos

In this book, William H. F. Altman argues that it is not order of composition but reading order that makes Euthyphro, Apology of Socrates, Crito, and Phaedo “late dialogues,” and shows why Plato’s decision to interpolate the notoriously “late” Sophist and Statesman between Euthyphro and Apology deserves more respect from interpreters.

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Based on a conception of Reading Order introduced and developed in his Plato the Teacher: The Crisis of the Republic (Lexington; 2012) and The Guardians in Action: Plato the Teacher and the Post-Republic Dialogues from Timaeus to Theaetetus (Lexington; 2016), William H. F. Altman now completes his study of Plato's so-called ';late dialogues' by showing that they include those that depict the trial and death of Socrates. According to Altman, it is not Order of Composition but Reading Order that makes Euthyphro, Apology of Socrates, Crito, and Phaedo ';late dialogues,' and he shows why Plato's decision to interpolate the notoriously ';late' Sophist and Statesman between Euthyphro and Apology deserves more respect from interpreters. Altman explains this interpolationand another, that places Laws between Crito and Phaedoas part of an ongoing test Plato has created for his readers that puts ';the Guardians on Trial.' If we don't recognize that Socrates himself is the missing Philosopher that the Eleatic Stranger never actually describesand also the antithesis of the Athenian Stranger, who leaves Athens in order to create laws for Cretewe pronounce ourselves too sophisticated to be Plato's Guardians, and unworthy of the Socratic inheritance.

Autor

William H. F. Altman, an independent scholar now living in Brazil, is a retired public high school teacher with more than thirty years experience teaching history, Latin, and the humanities.

Inhalt

AcknowledgementsPreface: The Reading Order of Plato’s Dialogues from Euthyphro to PhaedoIntroduction: The Guardians on Trial1Beginning the End with Euthyphro1. “The Great Parmenides”2. Piety and Parricide 2Plato’s Trilogy: Sophist, Statesman, and Apology of Socrates3. The Image of the Philosopher in Sophist4. The Sophist in Plato’s Statesman 5. Apology of Socrates as Plato’s Philosopher3Hipparchus-Minos: Conversing with the Weeping Jailor6. Reading Order and Authenticity7. Basanistic Pedagogy in Plato’s Hipparchus8. Plato’s Minos: The Snuggest Fit of All4Crito-Laws-Epinomis: Socrates vs. the Athenian Stranger9. Achilles in Athens10. The Athenian Stranger as “Socrates” in Flight11. The Theological-Political coup d’etat of Laws 1312. Halfway Toward Epinomis: Reading Laws 713. A Tale of Two Drinking Parties5The Immortal Phaedo14. Putting Cosmology in its Place15. Cratylus Revisited: αἰθήρ, Hades, and Apollo16. Immortality and the Intermediates: Purification vs. Proof17. Justice as Cause: The Argument of the Action18. Before ProtagorasBibliographyIndexIndex verborumIndex locorum

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.7.2016
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
• Schlagworte: Ancient Philosophy • Apology • basanistic pedagogy • Classical Studies • classics • crito • Epinomis • euthyphro • Hipparchus • Laws • Metaphysics • Minos • Phaedo • Philosophy of education • Political Philosophy • Reading Order • Sophist • Statesman
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-2952-6 / 1498529526
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-2952-5 / 9781498529525