Hugh H Benson

Clitophon's Challenge

Dialectic in Plato's Meno, Phaedo, and Republic

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Produktbeschreibung

Hugh H. Benson explores Plato's answer to Clitophon's challenge, the question of how one can acquire the knowledge Socrates argues is essential to human flourishing-knowledge we all seem to lack.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 167mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 565g
• ISBN-13: 9780199324835
• ISBN-10: 0199324832
• Artikelnr.: 47870166

Autorenporträt

Hugh H. Benson is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Oklahoma. He is a Samuel Roberts Noble Presidential Professor, the editor of Essays on the Philosophy of Socrates (OUP 1992), Blackwell Companion to Plato (Blackwell, 2006), and the author of Socratic Wisdom (OUP 2000) and various articles on the philosophy of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Clitophon's Challenge
Chapter 2: Learning from Others in the Elenctic Dialogues
Chapter 3: Meno's Paradox and the Theory of Recollection
Chapter 4: The Method of Hypothesis: Not A Mere Second Best
Chapter 5: The Method of Hypothesis: A Preliminary Sketch
Chapter 6: The Method of Hypothesis: Socrates at Work in the Meno
Chapter 7: The Method of Hypothesis: Socrates at Work in the Phaedo
Chapter 8: The Method of Hypothesis: Socrates At Work in the Republic
Chapter 9: Dialectic in the Republic
Bibliography
Index