How Socrates Became Socrates
An edition of How Socrates Became Socrates (2021)
A Study of Plato's Phaedo, Parmenides, and Symposium
By Laurence Lampert
Publish Date
2021
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Language
eng
Pages
240
Description:
"Laurence Lampert is well-known for philosophical studies on Nietzsche, Plato, and Leo Strauss. His work is animated by the notion that Nietzsche is the key figure in Strauss's thought and that Strauss is a Nietzschean in disguise. In How Socrates Became Socrates, Lampert brings his work on Nietzsche into conversation with his work on Plato, showing how the "mature" Socrates is himself a Nietzschean avant la lettre, and that this is how Strauss understands him, bringing to completion a decades-long philosophical project in thrilling fashion"--
subjects: Philosophy, General, Parmenides (Plato), Phaedo (Plato), Symposium (Plato)