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2 produkter
2 produkter
Who is afraid of the rhētōr?
An analysis and exegesis of Socrates and Gorgias' conversation in Plato's Gorgias
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
1 727 kr
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This book concentrates on the conversation between Socrates and Gorgias which takes place in the first part of Plato's Gorgias. Scholars have tended to concentrate on the following two conversations held by Socrates with Polus and, especially, with Callicles. This first, relatively short, conversation is usually taken to be a kind of preface coming before Plato's 'real' philosophy. The present study challenges this assumption, arguing that the conversation between Socrates and Gorgias actually anticipates the message of the whole dialogue, which concerns the essence of rhetoric and its implications.
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Del 178 - Philosophia Antiqua
Democracy under Fire: A New Interpretation of Plato's Crito
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
2 125 kr
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This book argues that Plato’s Crito is a fundamental critique of democracy, presenting Crito as the representative democratic citizen. Initially appearing good, decent and law-abiding, but ultimately revealed as bad, indecent and a lawbreaker, harmful to the polis. Through the dialogue’s three-stage structure—revelation, rectification, and refutation—Socrates exposes in Crito a fatal democratic flaw. This the author calls the “Measure for Measure argument”: the social legitimation of lawbreaking in pursuit of private interest, conceived as unconsciously repaying injustice with injustice. Democratic citizens are generally law-abiding, yet violate the law whenever private interests are at stake, justifying this by subconsciously claiming “the State did me an injustice”. Plato’s solution to securing obedience lies not in the Laws’ speech, but in internalizing that breaking the law harms one’s own soul.