Socratic Ignorance and Platonic Knowledge in the Dialogues of Plato 1st Edition by Sara Ahbel Rappe ISBN 9781438469263 1438469268

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ISBN 10:  1438469268

ISBN 13: 9781438469263

Author:  Sara Ahbel-Rappe

Argues that Socrates’ fundamental role in the dialogues is to guide us toward self-inquiry and self-knowledge.

In this highly original and provocative book, Sara Ahbel-Rappe argues that the Platonic dialogues contain an esoteric Socrates who signifies a profound commitment to self-knowledge and whose appearances in the dialogues are meant to foster the practice of self-inquiry. According to Ahbel-Rappe, the elenchus, or inner examination, and the thesis that virtue is knowledge, are tools for a contemplative practice that teaches us how to investigate the mind and its objects directly. In other words, the Socratic persona of the dialogues represents wisdom, which is distinct from and serves as the larger space in which Platonic knowledge-ethics, epistemology, and metaphysics-is constructed. Ahbel-Rappe offers complete readings of the Apology, Charmides, Alcibiades I, Euthyphro, Lysis, Phaedrus, Theaetetus, and Parmenides, as well as parts of the Republic. Her interpretation challenges two common approaches to the figure of Socrates: the thesis that the dialogues represent an “early” Plato who later disavows his reliance on Socratic wisdom, and the thesis that Socratic ethics can best be expressed by the construct of eudaimonism or egoism.

Table of contents: 

1. Chapter One Socratic Philosophy

2. Chapter Two Socratic Receptions

3. Chapter Three Socrates And Self-Knowledge

4. Chapter Four Euthydemus: Native And Foreign

5. Chapter Five Alcibiades I: The Mirror Of Socrates

6. Chapter Six Lysis: The Aporetic Identity Of The First Friend

7. Chapter Seven From Virtues To Forms In The Phaedrus

8. Chapter Eight Theaetetus: Socrates’s Interrogation Of Platonic Knowledge

9. Chapter Nine “He Who Is Wisest Among You”: Socratic Ignorance Between The Parmenides And The Apology

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