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Trials of reason : Plato and the crafting of philosophy / David Wolfsdorf.
| Author/creator | Wolfsdorf, David, 1969- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008. |
| Description | x, 285 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents only |
| Subjects |
| 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 technê -- 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 Sôphrosunê -- Critias' Philotimia -- Self-knowledge and the knowledge of knowledge -- Knowledge of knowledge and knowledge of the good -- Philosophy and the polis. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-275) and indexes. |
| LCCN | 2007003713 |
| ISBN | 9780195327328 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0195327322 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | B395 .W8155 2008 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |