The Neoplatonic Socrates /
Today the name Socrates invokes a powerful idealization of wisdom and nobility that would surprise many of his contemporaries, who excoriated the philosopher for corrupting youth. The problem of who Socrates "really" was-the true history of his activities and beliefs-has long been thought...
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2014]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Socratic Love in Neoplatonism
- Chapter 2. Plutarch and Apuleius on Socrates' Daimonion
- Chapter 3. The Daimonion of Socrates: Daimones and Divination in Neoplatonism
- Chapter 4. Socrates in the Neoplatonic Psychology of Hermias
- Chapter 5. The Character of Socrates and the Good of Dialogue Form: Neoplatonic Hermeneutics
- Chapter 6. Hypostasizing Socrates
- Chapter 7. Socratic Character: Proclus on the Function of Erotic Intellect
- Chapter 8. The Elenctic Strategies of Socrates: The Alcibiades I and the Commentary of Olympiodorus
- Chapter 9. Akrasia and Enkrateia in Simplicius's Commentary on Epictetus's Encheiridion
- Chapter 10. The Many-Voiced Socrates: Neoplatonist Sensitivity to Socrates' Change of Register
- Conclusion
- Appendix: The Reception of Socrates in Late Antiquity: Authors, Texts, and Notable References
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- General Index
- Acknowledgments