Cross Examining Socrates

Author : John Beversluis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521550581
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cross-Examining Socrates written by John Beversluis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-06 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a rereading of Plato's early dialogues from the point of view of the characters with whom Socrates engages in debate. Socrates' interlocutors are generally acknowledged to play important dialectical and dramatic roles, but no previous book has focused mainly on them. Existing studies are thoroughly dismissive of the interlocutors and reduce them to the status of mere mouthpieces for views which are hopelessly confused or demonstrably false. This book takes interlocutors seriously and treats them as genuine intellectual opponents whose views are often more defensible than commentators have standardly thought. The author's purpose is not to summarise their positions or the arguments of the dialogues in which they appear, much less to produce a series of biographical sketches, but to investigate the phenomenology of philosophical disputation as it manifests itself in the early dialogues.

Author : Peter Kreeft
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 168149440X
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Socrates Meets Machiavelli written by Peter Kreeft and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2011-03-24 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no better way to understand our present world than by exploring the Great Books written by the great minds that have made it. There is no better way to study the beginning of modern political philosophy than by studying its foundations in Machiavelli's The Prince. There is no better way to study the Great Books than with the aid of Socrates, the philosopher par excellence. What if we could overhear a conversation in the afterlife between Socrates and Machiavelli, in which Machiavelli has to submit to an Oxford tutorial style examination of his book conducted by Socrates using his famous "Socratic method" of cross-examination? How might the conversation go? This imaginative thought-experiment makes for both drama and a good lesson in logic, in moral and political philosophy, in "how to read a book", and in the history of early modern thought. Thus this book is for readers looking for a thought-stretching "good read" and for use in college classes in logic, philosophy, ethics, political science, literature, communication, rhetoric, anthropology, and history.

Author : Peter Kreeft
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1681494418
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Socrates Meets Marx written by Peter Kreeft and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2010-02-12 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utilizing the dialogue format that the Greek philosopher made famous, Kreeft presents the latest in his series of small books on philosophy. In a unique and compelling take on the philosophies of the modern world, Kreeft pits the ancient Greek philosopher against the founder of Communism. Humorous, frank, and insightful, this book challenges the reader to step in and take hold of what is right and to cast away what is wrong. Topics covered include such varied subjects as private property, the individual, the ಜThree Philosophies of Manಝ, women, individualism, and more. A wonderful introduction to philosophy for the neophyte, and a joy for the experienced student.

Author : George Rudebusch
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444358707
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Socrates written by George Rudebusch and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Socrates presents a compelling case for some life-changing conclusions that follow from a close reading of Socrates' arguments. Offers a highly original study of Socrates and his thought, accessible to contemporary readers Argues that through studying Socrates we can learn practical wisdom to apply to our lives Lovingly crafted with humour, thought-experiments and literary references (from the Iliad to Harry Potter), and with close reading sof key Socratic arguments Aids readers with diagrams to make clear complex arguments

Author : Peter Kreeft
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 0898709717
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Socrates Meets Sartre written by Peter Kreeft and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian philosopher Kreeft (philosophy, Boston College) uses an imaginary dialogue between Socrates and Sartre to challenge the fundamental concepts of existentialist philosophy. The conversational style and non-technical language he employs serves to make the concepts discussed accessible to both students and general readers. Kreeft is also the

Author : Francis Lewis Wellman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Cross-examination written by Francis Lewis Wellman and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gary Alan Scott
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271046495
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Does Socrates Have a Method? written by Gary Alan Scott and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although &"the Socratic method&" is commonly understood as a style of pedagogy involving cross-questioning between teacher and student, there has long been debate among scholars of ancient philosophy about how this method as attributed to Socrates should be defined or, indeed, whether Socrates can be said to have used any single, uniform method at all distinctive to his way of philosophizing. This volume brings together essays by classicists and philosophers examining this controversy anew. The point of departure for many of those engaged in the debate has been the identification of Socratic method with &"the elenchus&" as a technique of logical argumentation aimed at refuting an interlocutor, which Gregory Vlastos highlighted in an influential article in 1983. The essays in this volume look again at many of the issues to which Vlastos drew attention but also seek to broaden the discussion well beyond the limits of his formulation. Some contributors question the suitability of the elenchus as a general description of how Socrates engages his interlocutors; others trace the historical origins of the kinds of argumentation Socrates employs; others explore methods in addition to the elenchus that Socrates uses; several propose new ways of thinking about Socratic practices. Eight essays focus on specific dialogues, each examining why Plato has Socrates use the particular methods he does in the context defined by the dialogue. Overall, representing a wide range of approaches in Platonic scholarship, the volume aims to enliven and reorient the debate over Socratic method so as to set a new agenda for future research. Contributors are Hayden W. Ausland, Hugh H. Benson, Thomas C. Brickhouse, Michelle Carpenter, John M. Carvalho, Lloyd P. Gerson, Francisco J. Gonzalez, James H. Lesher, Mark McPherran, Ronald M. Polansky, Gerald A. Press, Fran&çois Renaud, and W. Thomas Schmid, Nicholas D. Smith, P. Christopher Smith, Harold Tarrant, Joanne B. Waugh, and Charles M. Young.

Author : George A. Serghides
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781616193508
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Art of Cross-examination written by George A. Serghides and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Serghides breaks down the writings of recognized English and American masters of trial advocacy Edward William Cox, William Ballantine, David Paul Brown and Henry Hardwicke into principles that offer specific guidance on cross-examination techniques. "As the book proceeds, the long-established and perfected principles and rules of cross-examination unfold with logical consistency and interrelation and are illustrated by simple and practical references, reminding us that what was obtained in older times is still as valid and relevant today." --Demetrios H. Hadjihambis, ix George A. Serghides is a graduate in law of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and holds a Ph.D. in law at the University of Exeter, U.K. as well as a holder of a doctorate law degree (Ph.D) at the national and Kapodistrian University of Salonica. He practiced law in Cyprus for some years and since 1990 has been a Judge and President of different Family Courts in Cyprus. He is also a Liaison Judge for Cyprus for the promotion of an international Judicial Network in matters of Family Law, especially on children. Dr. Serghides' first book, written in Greek and published in Nicosia in 2007, is entitled The Technique of Cross-Examination, the Golden Rules of Cross-examination and Four Masters of Antiquity, two Greek (Socrates and Aristotle) and two Latin (Cicero and Quintilian).

Author : Coleman Phillipson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Trial of Socrates written by Coleman Phillipson and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When two bad ants desert from their colony, they experience a dangerous adventure that convinces them to return to their former safety.

Author : Luis E. Navia
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1616140860
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Socrates written by Luis E. Navia and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2009-12-02 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosopher Luis E. Navia presents a compelling portrayal of Socrates in this very readable and well-researched book, which is both a biography of the man and an exploration of his ideas.