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Profound Ignorance : Plato's Charmides and the Saving of Wisdom.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (373 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781498501774
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Profound IgnoranceDDC classification:
  • 184
LOC classification:
  • B366 -- .L48 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Remembering the Tyrant in an Age of Totalitarianism: A General Introduction -- Chapter 2: The City and Its Promise -- Chapter 3: Doctor Socrates -- Chapter 4: The Look Beneath, Part I: The Dilemma of Our Sociability -- Chapter 5: The Look Beneath, Part II: The Elusiveness of Selfhood -- Chapter 6: The Wisdom of Critias -- Chapter 7: The Lesson of Ignorance, I -- Chapter 8: The Lesson of Ignorance, II -- Chapter 9: Horn or Ivory: Two Faces of Sophrosyne -- Chapter 10: "A Sight Surely Worth Seeing" -- Appendix: Synopsis of Profound Ignorance -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
Summary: No topic could be more relevant in these times than tyranny, "the greatest sickness of the soul." The Charmidesof Plato gives us an opportunity to look deeply into the soul or cognitive structure of one of Athens's most notorious tyrants, Critias, and looks deeply into its dialectical opposite, the soul and cognitive structure of Socrates.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Remembering the Tyrant in an Age of Totalitarianism: A General Introduction -- Chapter 2: The City and Its Promise -- Chapter 3: Doctor Socrates -- Chapter 4: The Look Beneath, Part I: The Dilemma of Our Sociability -- Chapter 5: The Look Beneath, Part II: The Elusiveness of Selfhood -- Chapter 6: The Wisdom of Critias -- Chapter 7: The Lesson of Ignorance, I -- Chapter 8: The Lesson of Ignorance, II -- Chapter 9: Horn or Ivory: Two Faces of Sophrosyne -- Chapter 10: "A Sight Surely Worth Seeing" -- Appendix: Synopsis of Profound Ignorance -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

No topic could be more relevant in these times than tyranny, "the greatest sickness of the soul." The Charmidesof Plato gives us an opportunity to look deeply into the soul or cognitive structure of one of Athens's most notorious tyrants, Critias, and looks deeply into its dialectical opposite, the soul and cognitive structure of Socrates.

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