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Socrates
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470 - 399 B. C.
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 Rewriting
the History of Ancient Greek Philosophy
by V. Tejera This book examines what we can reliably know about
Plato and the historical Socrates. It shows how pervasively the
sources of information were biased by Pythagoreanism, Platonism,
and Neoplatonism. It gives a source-critical account of how the
climate of opinion in fourth-century Athens was captured by the
Pythagoreans and how Speusippos's Academy also came to be
pythagorized--adding definitional idealism to Pythagorean number
idealism, and elevating Plato to a divine level that makes him
into a coequal of Pythagoras, thus capturing Plato for
Pythagoreanism. By showing how Plato's dialogues were
dedramatized, dedialogized, and read or understood as if they
were works expounding pythagorizing doctrine, Tejera has created
a provocative reappraisal for scholars of ancient Greek
philosophy..
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Kent Anderson and Norm Freund created this site to help students read the
Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and death scene from Phaedo.
Site includes:
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Biography of the Greek philosopher is presented by the Regents of the University of Michigan.
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Trinity College provides a brief profile of the Greek philosopher who lived from 469-399 BC. Find links to Plato and other philosophers.
Excerpt:
A philosopher of Athens, generally regarded as one of the wisest
people of all time. It is not known who his teachers were, but he seems
to have been acquainted with the doctrines of PARMENIDES, HERACLITUS,
and ANAXAGORAS. Socrates himself left no writings, and most of our
knowledge of him and his teachings comes from the dialogues of his most
famous pupil, PLATO, and from the memoirs of XENOPHON. Socrates is
described as having neglected his own affairs, instead spending his time
discussing virtue, justice, and piety wherever his fellow citizens
congregated, seeking wisdom about right conduct so that he might guide
the moral and intellectual improvement of Athens. Using a method now
known as the Socratic dialogue, or dialectic, he drew forth knowledge
from his students by pursuing a series of questions and examining the
implications of their answers.
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Anthony Gottlieb offers excerpts from this chapter of his book on the history of western philosophy.
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