The Ontology of Socratic Questioning in Plato's Early

The Ontology of Socratic Questioning in Plato's Early Dialogues (Contemporary Contin Philosophy)
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A provocative close reading revealing a radical, proto-phenomenological Socrates.

Modern interpreters of Platoâ€™s Socrates have generally taken the dialogues to be aimed at working out objective truth. Attending closely to the texts of the early dialogues and the question of virtue in particular, Sean D. Kirkland suggests that this approach is flawedâ€”that such concern with discovering external facts rests on modern assumptions that would have been far from the minds of Socrates and his contemporaries. This isnâ€™t, however, to accuse Socrates of any kind of relativism. Through careful analysis of the original Greek and of a range of competing strands of Plato scholarship, Kirkland instead brings to light a radical, proto-phenomenological Socrates, for whom â€œwhat virtue isâ€ is what has always already appeared as virtuous in everyday experience of the world, even if initial appearances are unsatisfactory or obscure and in need of greater scrutiny and clarification.
Country USA
Brand State University of New York Press
Manufacturer State University of New York Press
Binding Hardcover
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EANs 9781438444031
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	State University of New York Press
Manufacturer	State University of New York Press
Binding	Hardcover
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781438444031
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

The Ontology of Socratic Questioning in Plato's Early Dialogues (Contemporary Contin Philosophy)