An image of the soul in speech
Subtitle: Plato and the problem of Socrates
By: David N. McNeill
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9780271035857
Description: "In this book, David McNeill illuminates Plato's distinctive approach to philosophy by examining how his literary portrayal of Socrates manifests an essential interdependence between philosophic and ethical inquiry. In particular, McNeill demonstrates how Socrates' confrontation with profound ethical questions about his public philosophic activity is the key to understanding the distinctively mimetic, dialogic, and reflexive character of Socratic philosophy."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-319) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Plato's Socrates on the problem of Socrates; title: Republic, Book 1: philosophy and cultural decadence; title: Polemarchus, politics, and action; title: Thrasymachus, rhetoric, and the art of rule; title: Gorgias and the divine work of persuasion; title: Protagoras, antinaturalism, and the political art; title: Tyrannical Eros and the philosophic orientation of the Republic; title: Imitation and experience; title: Poetry, psychology, and to/qumoeide/; title: Psychology and ontology; title: An image of the soul in speech.