num_pages: 193
description: This text explores the logic of not-knowing, dramatically presented in the middle-period dialogues of Plato. It contends that Plato first perceived such a logic of not-knowing in the person and behaviour of the man Socrates. It argues that Plato developed the same logic in the literary character Socrates in his dialogues and presented it to his contemporaries as a model of human excellence, designed to supplant precedent and then contemporary contenders to model status. This book challenges the traditional interpretation of Plato, and offers an interpretation of Plato as the elaborator of the hypothetical method, termed erotic-hypothesizing which speaks of human possibility and human limitation.
language: English
title: A Cock for Asclepios: Or Continuing Dialogues With Socrates, in Extremis
titlecomplete: A Cock for Asclepios: Or Continuing Dialogues With Socrates, in Extremis
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr