Brill's Companion to the Reception of Socrates

Christopher Moore, Ph.D. (2008), University of Minnesota, is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Classics at the Pennsylvania State University. He has written Socrates and Self-Knowledge (Cambridge, 2015) and Calling Philosophers Names: On the Origins of a Discipline (Princeton, 2019); he has also co-edited Socrates and the Socratic Dialogue (Brill, 2018) and Plato: Charmides (Hackett, 2019).Contributors are: Dolores Amat, Hayden W. Ausland, Mark Beck, Brady Bowman, Nadia Bray, Jacques A. Bromberg, Alison Calhoun, Damian Caluori, F. Javier Campos-Daroca, Curtis Dozier, Juraj Franek, Samuel Frederick, James Hankins, Leofranc Holford-Strevens, Brian Earl Johnson, David Johnson, Mark Joyal, Oskari Kuusela, Leonard Lawlor, Cedric Littlewood, Antis Loizides, Felicity P. Loughlin, Menahem Luz, Sean McConnell, Christopher Moore, David J. Murphy, Sandra Peterson, Ute Pietruschka, Susan Prince, Christopher C. Raymond, David Schur, John Sellars, Karel Thein, Michele Trizio, Elvira Wakelnig, David Conan Wolfsdorf, Lori Yamato

• ContentsAbbreviations ix Contributors x Introduction: Socrates’ Writing as Writings about Socrates 1 Christopher MoorePART 1Living Reception1 Greek Tragedy and the Socratic Tradition 41Jacques A. Bromberg2 Socrates in Early Fourth-Century Rhetoric: Polycrates, Lysias, Isocrates,and Pseudo-Andocides 75David J. Murphy3 Plato’s Reception of Socrates: One Aspect 98Sandra Peterson4 Antisthenes’ Portrayal of Socrates 124Menahem Luz5 Xenophon’s Socrates and the Socratic Xenophon 150David JohnsonPART 2Greek Philosophy6 Socrates in Aristotle’s History of Philosophy 173Christopher Moore7 What Is Socratic about the Pseudo-Platonica? 211Mark Joyal8 Epicurus and the Epicureans on Socrates and the Socratics 237F. Javier Campos-Daroca9 The Syncretic Socrates of Epictetus 266Brian Earl Johnson10 Socratic Themes in the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius 293John Sellars11 Plutarch’s Primary Use of the Socratic Paradigm in the Lives 311Mark Beck12 Socratic Methods in Damascius 328Damian CaluoriPART 3Roman Writers13 Cicero and Socrates 347Sean McConnell14 Socrates in Roman Satire 367Cedric Littlewood15 The Rhetoric of Socrates in Quintilian’s Institutio Oratoria 399Curtis Dozier16 Socrates in Aulus Gellius 415Leofranc Holford-StrevensPART 4Late Antiquity and the Medieval Period17 The Reception of Socrates in Tertullian 435Juraj Franek18 Socrates in Stobaeus: Assembling a Philosopher 453Susan Prince19 Syriac Reception of Socrates 518Ute Pietruschka20 Socrates in the Arabic Tradition: An Esteemed Monotheist with MoistBlue Eyes 545Elvira Wakelnig21 Socrates, “Princeps Stoicorum,” in Albert the Great’s Middle Ages 571Nadia Bray22 Socrates in Byzantium 592Michele TrizioPART 5Early Modern Europe23 Manetti’s Socrates and the Socrateses of Antiquity 619James Hankins24 Writing Montaigne’s Socrates with Diogenes Laertius and Plutarch 635Alison Calhoun25 Socrates and Religious Debate in the Scottish Enlightenment 658Felicity P. LoughlinPART 6The Nineteenth Century26 Socrates in the Early Nineteenth Century, Become Young andBeautiful 685Hayden W. Ausland27 Astonished Thought: Friedrich Schlegel’s Appropriation of SocraticIrony 719Samuel Frederick28 Hegel on Socrates and the Historical Advent of MoralSelf-Consciousness 749Brady Bowman29 The Mills 793Antis Loizides30 Kierkegaard’s Socratic Way of Writing 820David Schur and Lori Yamato31 Nietzsche’s Revaluation of Socrates 837Christopher C. RaymondPART 7The Twentieth Century32 Wittgenstein’s Reception of Socrates 883Oskari Kuusela33 Leo Strauss’ Socrates and the Possibility of Philosophy in OurTime 908Dolores Amat34 “Sacrifice a Cock to Asclepius”: The Reception of Socrates in Foucault’sFinal Writings 928Leonard Lawlor35 Socratic Voices in Derrida’s Writing 950Karel Thein36 Socrates, Vlastos, and Analytic Philosophy 975David Conan WolfsdorfIndex of Persons 997