Companion to Socrates

Sara Ahbel-Rappe is Associate Professor of Greek and Latin at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Reading Neoplatonism (2000) and a translation of Damascius’ Doubts and Solutions Concerning First Principles (forthcoming).Rachana Kamtekar is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona.

• Notes on Contributors xPreface xivAcknowledgments xxivPART ONE: SOCRATES IN ANTIQUITYSection I: Biography and Sources1 The Trial and Death of Socrates 5Debra Nails2 Socrates and Euripides 21Christian Wildberg3 Socrates Among the Sophists 36Paul Woodruff4 Socrates the Freethinker 48Richard Janko5 How Does Socrates’ Divine Sign Communicate with Him? 63A. A. Long6 Socrates, Antisthenes, and the Cynics 75Susan Prince7 Xenophon’s Socrates 93Louis-André Dorion8 Picturing Socrates 110Kenneth LapatinSection II: Plato9 Socrates in Plato’s Dialogues 159Christopher Rowe10 No One Errs Willingly: The Meaning of Socratic Intellectualism 171Heda Segvic11 Socratic Love 186George Rudebusch12 Socrates and Religious Experience 200John Bussanich13 The Politics of Plato’s Socrates 214Rachana Kamtekar14 The Examined Life 228Richard Kraut15 Socrates: Seeker or Preacher? 243Roslyn Weiss16 Socratic Method and Socratic Truth 254Harold TarrantSection III: Hellenistic Philosophy17 Socrates in the Stoa 275Eric Brown18 Socrates and Epictetus 285Tad Brennan19 Socrates and Skepticism 299Richard BettPART TWO: SOCRATES AFTER ANTIQUITYSection IV: From the Medieval Period to Modernity20 Socrates in Arabic Philosophy 317Ilai Alon21 Socrates in the Italian Renaissance 337James Hankins22 The Private Life of Socrates in Early Modern France 353Daniel R. McLean23 Socrates in Hegel and Others 368Nicholas WhiteSection V: The Modern Period24 Kierkegaard’s Socratic Point of View 389Paul Muench25 Nietzsche and “The Problem of Socrates” 406James I. Porter26 The Socratic Hermeneutics of Heidegger and Gadamer 426Francisco J. Gonzalez27 The Socratic Method and Psychoanalysis 442Jonathan Lear28 Lacan and Socrates 463Mark Buchan29 From Grade School to Law School: Socrates’ Legacy in Education 476Avi Mintz30 Socrates’ Definitional Inquiries and the History of Philosophy 493Hayden W. AuslandIndex 511

"Everyone interested in Socrates and his legacy will find something valuable in this book..." Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews"A remarkably rich and imaginative collection. Socrates was a philosopher who became a cultural icon; this book, with its massive historical range and its great variety of scholarly approach, does unique justice to his complexity."G.R.F. Ferrari, University of California, Berkeley "This is a stimulating collection that succeeds admirably in conveying the enormous range of responses that the ever puzzling Socrates has inspired through the ages, and continues to inspire. The essays on Plato's Socrates are fresh and vigorous, and the attention paid to later perspectives (from antiquity to the present, and especially recent centuries) helps make this volume a distinctive and unusually illuminating addition to Socratic studies. It should be a welcome companion to a figure who attracted devoted companions in his lifetime, and legions more ever since." Stephen White, University of Texas at Austin "Technical issues are treated thoroughly and comprehensibly and the state of knowledge on Socrates is comprehensively presented both for today and its historical contexts. Its subject matter will be of interest to non-specialists with a penchant for philosophy, or for the history of thoght, since there is as much of interest here about the influence of Socrates on later periods as there is on the thought of the philosopher himself." Reference Reviews