David Lawrence Levine

Profound Ignorance

Plato's Charmides and the Saving of Wisdom

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

No topic could be more relevant in these times than tyranny, "the greatest sickness of the soul." The Charmidesof Plato gives us an opportunity to look deeply into the soul or cognitive structure of one of Athens’s most notorious tyrants, Critias, and looks deeply into its dialectical opposite, the soul and cognitive structure of Socrates.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9781498501781
• ISBN-10: 1498501788
• Artikelnr.: 48694807

Autorenporträt

David Levine has been a tutor at St. John's College, Santa Fe, for twenty-seven years.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One: Remembering the Tyrant in the Age of Totalitarianism: A
General Introduction
Chapter Two: The City and Its Promise (153a1-155a8)
Chapter Three: Doctor Socrates (155a8-158c4)
Chapter Four: The Look Beneath, Part One: The Dilemma of Our Sociability
(155c5-160d4)
Chapter Five: The Look Beneath, Part II: The Elusiveness of Selfhood
(160d5-162b11)
Chapter Six: The Wisdom of Critias (162c1-166c5)
Chapter Seven: The Lesson of Ignorance, I (166c6-167a8)
Chapter Eight: The Lesson of Ignorance, II (167a9-169d8)
Chapter Nine: Horn or Ivory, The Two Faces of Sophrosyne (169d9-175d3)
Chapter Ten: "A Sight Surely Worth Seeing" (175d4-176d5)
Appendix: Synopsis