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The art of living : Socratic reflections from Plato to Foucault / Alexander Nehamas.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Sather classical lectures ; v. 61.Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, �1998.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 283 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520925519
  • 0520925513
  • 0585329818
  • 9780585329819
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Art of living.DDC classification:
  • 190 21
LOC classification:
  • BJ1595 .N37 1998eb
Other classification:
  • 08.20
Online resources:
Contents:
Silence -- Platonic irony: author and audience -- Socratic irony: character and interlocutors -- Socratic irony: character and author -- Voices -- A face for Socrates' reason: Montaigne's "Of physiognomy" -- A reason for Socrates' face: Nietzsche on "The problem of Socrates" -- A fare for Socrates' reason: Foucault on The care of the self.
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Summary: In modern times, philosophy has been a theoretical discipline rather than a practice or mode of life. In antiquity, however, Greek and Roman philosophers of all stripes turned to Socrates as the model of what a truly philosophical life should be. The idea of a philosophical life, and of philosophy as the art of living, though it is now in neglect among professional philosophers, has survived in the works of such major modern authors as Montaigne, Nietzsche, and Foucault. Why does each of these philosophers, fundamentally concerned with their own originality, return, like their ancient predecessors, to Socrates as their model? Why do they need a model at all? And why is the Socrates of Plato's dialogues suitable as a model? Uniquely, Socrates shows by example the way toward establishing an individual mode of life, a way that will not force his followers to repeat the life of Socrates but will compel them to search for their own.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-270) and index.

In modern times, philosophy has been a theoretical discipline rather than a practice or mode of life. In antiquity, however, Greek and Roman philosophers of all stripes turned to Socrates as the model of what a truly philosophical life should be. The idea of a philosophical life, and of philosophy as the art of living, though it is now in neglect among professional philosophers, has survived in the works of such major modern authors as Montaigne, Nietzsche, and Foucault. Why does each of these philosophers, fundamentally concerned with their own originality, return, like their ancient predecessors, to Socrates as their model? Why do they need a model at all? And why is the Socrates of Plato's dialogues suitable as a model? Uniquely, Socrates shows by example the way toward establishing an individual mode of life, a way that will not force his followers to repeat the life of Socrates but will compel them to search for their own.

Silence -- Platonic irony: author and audience -- Socratic irony: character and interlocutors -- Socratic irony: character and author -- Voices -- A face for Socrates' reason: Montaigne's "Of physiognomy" -- A reason for Socrates' face: Nietzsche on "The problem of Socrates" -- A fare for Socrates' reason: Foucault on The care of the self.

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