Reexamining Socrates in the Apology
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Reexamining Socrates in the Apology
（Northwestern University topics in historical philosophy / general editors, David Kolb, John McCumber）
Northwestern University Press, c2009
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Contents of Works
- "Oracles and dreams" commanding Socrates : reflections on Apology 33c / Bernard Freydberg
- Just speaking, just listening : performance and contradiction in Socrates' Apology / Maria L. Talero
- Of Socrates, Aristophanes, and rumors / George Gregory
- Socrates and Achilles / Robert Metcalf
- Plato's Oedipus : myth and philosophy in the Apology / Patricia Fagan
- Inventing Socrates : truth, jest, and care in Plato's Apology / James Crooks
- Caring and conversing about virtue every day : human piety and goodness in Plato's Apology / Francisco J. Gonzalez
- Citizen Socrates / Gregory Recco
- The (childish) nature of the soul in Plato's Apology / John Russon
- Becoming Socrates / Catherine H. Zuckert
- An Apology in the cave light / Omer Aygan
- The "inconceivable happiness" of "men and women" : visions of an other world in Plato's Apology of Socrates / Claudia Baracchi
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An oracle was reported to have said, 'No one is wiser than Socrates'. And in fact it was Socrates' life's work to interpret these words, which demanded and defined the practice of philosophy. Each of these original essays attends carefully to the specifics of the Apology, looking to its dramatic details, its philosophic teaching, and its complexity as a work of writing to bring into focus the 'Socrates' of the Apology. Overall, the contributors, distinguished scholars of ancient philosophy, share a belief in the unity of the letter and the spirit of Platonic philosophy: the conviction that the Platonic text cannot be reached except through reading and cannot be read except through thinking. In this way, the readings in this volume mirror Socrates' own hermeneutical practice of uniting the demands of the mind and the demands of the text - the Socratic 'examination'. The result, true to the Socratic injunction that the unexamined life is not worth living, continues that practice of examination, here offering a reexamination of Socrates in the Apology.
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