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Michael C. Stokes
This study focuses on Laches, Protagoras, and the conversation between Socrates and Agathon in the Symposium. For these dialogues the author “proposes a strategy of interpretation that insists on the…
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Plato’s Crito examines a single moral decision, whether Socrates ought to escape from his death-cell. Stokes’s book discusses Socrates’ arguments against Crito’s offer of escape. It construes Socrates’ questions as…
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The Apology is a masterpiece of rhetoric, illustrating Plato’s version of Socrates’ dialectical method. This edition brings together valuable research and develops it further, questioning the historical accuracy of Plato’s…
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Originally published by the Center for Hellenic Studies, this book investigates the extent to which the Presocratics were hamstrung by their lack of detailed conceptual framework in the case of…
This book, first published in 1992, introduces some of Socrates’ problems. It seeks at the same time to advance new views, arguments and information on Socrates’ mission, techniques, ethics and…
