Reexamining Socrates in the Apology

by: Fagan, P. Russon, J.

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Reexamining Socrates in the Apology
Authors:Patricia Fagan (Editor), John Russon (Editor)

An oracle was reported to have said, "No one is wiser than Socrates." And in fact it was Socrates? life?s work to interpret these words, which demanded and defined the practice of philosophy. Each of these original essays attends carefully to the specifics of the Apology, looking to its dramatic details, its philosophic teaching, and its complexity as a work of writing to bring into focus the "Socrates" of the Apology.

Overall, the contributors, distinguished scholars of ancient philosophy, share a belief in the unity of the letter and the spirit of Platonic philosophy: the conviction that the Platonic text cannot be reached except through reading and cannot be read except through thinking. In this way, the readings in this volume mirror Socrates? own hermeneutical practice of uniting the demands of the mind and the demands of the text—the Socratic "examination." The result, true to the Socratic injunction that the unexamined life is not worth living, continues that practice of examination, here offering a reexamination of Socrates in the Apology.

Contents:

Acknowledgments.....................................................................................................................................xi

Introduction: Socrates Examined Patricia Fagan and John Russon.....................................................................................xiii

1 "Oracles and Dreams" Commanding Socrates: Reflections on Apology 33c Bernard Freydberg...........................................................5

2 Just Speaking, Just Listening: Performance and Contradiction in Socrates' Apology

Maria L. Talero................................................16

3 Of Socrates, Aristophanes, and Rumors

George Gregory.............................................................................................35

4 Socrates and Achilles

Robert Metcalf.............................................................................................................62

5 Plato's Oedipus: Myth and Philosophy in the Apology

Patricia Fagan...............................................................................85

6 Inventing Socrates: Truth, Jest, and Care in Plato's Apology

James Crooks........................................................................102

7 Caring and Conversing About Virtue Every Day: Human Piety and Goodness in Plato's Apology

Francisco J. Gonzalez..................................117

8 Citizen Socrates

Gregory Recco...................................................................................................................168

9 The (Childish) Nature of the Soul in Plato's Apology

John Russon.................................................................................191

10 Becoming Socrates

Catherine H. Zuckert..........................................................................................................209

11 An Apology in the Cave Light

Ömer Aygün...............................................................................................250

12 The "Inconceivable Happiness" of "Men and Women": Visions of an Other World in Plato's Apology of Socrates

Claudia Baracchi.....................273

Index of Passages in the Apology....................................................................................................................291

Index of Topics.....................................................................................................................................295 Contributors........................................................................................................................................299

Series:
Northwestern University topics in historical philosophy

xxiv, 300 pages ; 23 cm.

Reexamining Socrates in the Apology

by: Fagan, P. Russon, J.

• ISBN-13: 9780810125872 / 978-0-8101-2587-2
• ISBN-03: 0810125870 / 0-8101-2587-0
• Northwestern University Press, Evanston, 2009

Price: 40,00 EURO

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