The Socratic MovementPaul A. Vander Waerdt 14 essays which examine the efforts of Socrates' associates to preserve his speeches for posterity. The papers place particular emphasis on the non-Platonic tradition. |
Contents
The Origins of the Socratic Dialogue | 23 |
Socrates in the Clouds | 48 |
Aeschines on Socratic Eros | 87 |
The Hippias Major and Socratic Theories of Pleasure | 107 |
Socrates in the Context of Xenophons Political Writings | 127 |
A Reading | 151 |
Xenophons Socrates as Teacher | 181 |
Friendship and Profit in Xenophons Oeconomicus | 209 |
Platos Socrates and the Stoics | 241 |
Zenos Republic and the Origins of Natural Law | 272 |
Plato the Skeptic | 309 |
Socrates among the Skeptics | 341 |
The Socratic Origins of the Cynics and Cyrenaics | 367 |
Contributors | 393 |
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Academy account of Socrates Aeschines Alcibiades ancient Antisthenes Arcesilaus argue argument Aristippus Aristophanes Aristophanic Socrates Aristotle Aspasia assent associates Athenian beliefs best regime Callias Chrysippus Cicero claim Clouds comic concerned conversation Critias criticism Crito Critoboulus Cynic Cyrenaic defend dialectical Diogenes Laertius discussion Dittmar divine doctrine early Stoics Ehlers elenchus enquiry erotic ethics Euthydemus evidence example gentleman gods Gorgias happiness Hellenistic Hippias Hippias major hominem human intellectual interlocutor interpretation Ischomachus justice kalokagathia knowledge literary Memorabilia moral natural law Oeconomicus passage Phaedo philo philosophical Plato Plato's Socrates pleasure Plut political position practice pre-Socratic principle problem Protagoras provides question rational reason refutation rule sage says seems self-sufficiency skeptical Socratic dialogues Sōkratikoi logoi sophists Sophron Stoic Strepsiades suggests Symposium teacher teaching Theaetetus theory things thought tion Unjust Speech virtue Vlastos wife Xeno Xenophon Xenophon's Socrates young Zeno δὲ καὶ τὸ