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Socrates and Aristophanes

2008-03-26 Drama
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Release : 2008-03-26
Genre : Drama
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Book Synopsis Socrates and Aristophanes by : Leo Strauss

Download or read book Socrates and Aristophanes written by Leo Strauss. This book was released on 2008-03-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In one of his last books, Socrates and Aristophanes, Leo Strauss's examines the confrontation between Socrates and Aristophanes in Aristophanes' comedies. Looking at eleven plays, Strauss shows that this confrontation is essentially one between poetry and philosophy, and that poetry emerges as an autonomous wisdom capable of rivaling philosophy. "Strauss gives us an impressive addition to his life's work—the recovery of the Great Tradition in political philosophy. The problem the book proposes centers formally upon Socrates. As is typical of Strauss, he raises profound issues with great courage. . . . [He addresses] a problem that has been inherent in Western life ever since [Socrates'] execution: the tension between reason and religion. . . . Thus, we come to Aristophanes, the great comic poet, and his attack on Socrates in the play The Clouds. . . [Strauss] translates it into the basic problem of the relation between poetry and philosophy, and resolves this by an analysis of the function of comedy in the life of the city." —Stanley Parry, National Review

The Cambridge Companion to Socrates

2011 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2011
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Socrates by : Donald R. Morrison

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Socrates written by Donald R. Morrison. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays from a diverse group of experts providing a comprehensive guide to Socrates, the most famous Greek philosopher.

The Trials of Socrates

2002-01-01 Philosophy
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Release : 2002-01-01
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis The Trials of Socrates by : C. D. C. Reeve

Download or read book The Trials of Socrates written by C. D. C. Reeve. This book was released on 2002-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique and expertly annotated collection of the classic accounts of Socrates left by Plato, Aristophanes, and Xenophon features new translations of Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and the death scene from Phaedo by C. D. C. Reeve, Peter Meineck's translation of Clouds, and James Doyle's translation of Apology of Socrates.

Socrates & Aristophanes

1966-01-21
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Release : 1966-01-21
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Book Synopsis Socrates & Aristophanes by : Leo Strauss

Download or read book Socrates & Aristophanes written by Leo Strauss. This book was released on 1966-01-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In one of his last books, Socrates and Aristophanes, Leo Strauss's examines the confrontation between Socrates and Aristophanes in Aristophanes' comedies. Looking at eleven plays, Strauss shows that this confrontation is essentially one between poetry and philosophy, and that poetry emerges as an autonomous wisdom capable of rivaling philosophy. "Strauss gives us an impressive addition to his life's work--the recovery of the Great Tradition in political philosophy. The problem the book proposes centers formally upon Socrates. As is typical of Strauss, he raises profound issues with great courage. . . . He addresses] a problem that has been inherent in Western life ever since Socrates'] execution: the tension between reason and religion. . . . Thus, we come to Aristophanes, the great comic poet, and his attack on Socrates in the play The Clouds. . . Strauss] translates it into the basic problem of the relation between poetry and philosophy, and resolves this by an analysis of the function of comedy in the life of the city." --Stanley Parry, National Review

Socrates and the Political Community

1987-07-01 Political Science
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Release : 1987-07-01
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Socrates and the Political Community by : Mary P. Nichols

Download or read book Socrates and the Political Community written by Mary P. Nichols. This book was released on 1987-07-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a fresh look at Socrates as he appeared to three ancient writers: Aristophanes, who attacked him for his theoretical studies; Plato, who immortalized him in his dialogues; and Aristotle, who criticized his political views. It addresses the questions of the interrelation of politics and philosophy by looking at Aristophanes' Clouds, Plato's Republic, and Book II of Aristotle's Politics—three sides of a debate on the value of Socrates' philosophic life. Mary Nichols first discusses the relation between Aristophanes and Plato, showing that the city as Socrates' place of activity in the Republic resembles the philosophic thinktank mocked in Aristophanes' Clouds. By representing the extremes of the Republic's city, Plato shows that the dangers attributed by Aristophanes to the city are actually inherent in political life itself. They were to be moderated by Socratic political philosophy rather than Aristophanean comedy. Nichols concludes by showing how Aristotle addressed the question at issue between Plato and Aristophanes when he founded his political science. Judging Plato's and Aristophanes' positions as partial, Nichols argues that Aristotle based his political science on the necessity to philosophy of political involvement and the necessity to politics of philosophical thought.

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