Trials of reason : Plato and the crafting of philosophy /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Wolfsdorf, David, 1969-
Corporate Authors: Oxford University Press.
Published: Oxford University Press,
Publisher Address: Oxford ; New York :
Publication Dates: 2008.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://www.iresearchbook.cn/f/ebook/detail?id=a10a65e442d940cca5be2e856be5eef8
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (x, 285 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-275) and indexes.
ISBN: 9780198043836
9780195327328
Index Number: B395
CLC: B502.232
Contents: Interpretation -- Introduction -- Interpreting Plato -- The political culture of Plato's early dialogues -- Dialogue -- Character and history -- The mouthpiece principle -- Forms of evidence -- Desire -- Socrates and eros -- The subjectivist conception of desire -- Instrumental and terminal desire -- Rational and irrational desires -- Desire in the critique of Akrasia -- Interpreting Lysis -- The deficiency conception of desire -- Inauthentic friendship -- Platonic desire -- Antiphilosophical desires -- Knowledge -- Excellence as wisdom -- The epistemic unity of excellence -- Dunamis and techn?? -- Goodness and form -- The epistemological priority of definitional knowledge -- Ordinary ethical knowledge -- Method -- The Socratic fallacy -- Socrates' pursuit of definitions -- Hupothesis -- Two postulates -- The geometrical illustration -- Geometrical analysis -- The method of reasoning from a postulate -- Elenchus and hupothesis -- Knowledge and aitia -- F-conditions -- Cognitive security -- Aporia -- Forms of aporia -- Dramatic aporia -- The example of Charmides -- Charmides as autobiography -- The politics of S?tphrosun?? -- Critias' Philotimia -- Self-knowledge and the knowledge of knowledge -- Knowledge of knowledge and knowledge of the good -- Philosophy and the polis.