The Neoplatonic Socrates

Title: The Neoplatonic Socrates
Creator: Layne, Danielle A.; Tarrant, Harold
Relation: http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15276.html
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Resource Type: book
Date: 2014
Description: In The Neoplatonic Socrates, leading scholars in classics and philosophy address this gap by examining Neoplatonic attitudes toward the Socratic method, Socratic love, Socrates's divine mission and moral example, and the much-debated issue of moral rectitude. Collectively, they demonstrate the importance of Socrates for the majority of Neoplatonists, a point that has often been questioned owing to the comparative neglect of surviving commentaries on the Alcibiades, Gorgias, Phaedo, and Phaedrus, in favor of dialogues dealing explicitly with metaphysical issues. Supplemented with a contextualizing introduction and a substantial appendix detailing where evidence for Socrates can be found in the extant literature, The Neoplatonic Socrates makes a clear case for the significant place Socrates held in the education and philosophy of late antiquity.
Subject: Socrates; Neoplatonism; philosophy
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1066350
Identifier: uon:18089
Identifier: ISBN:9780812246292
Language: eng