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 was 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