How Socrates Became Socrates: A Study of Platos Phaedo, Parmenides, and Symposium

ISBN: 022674633X

Author: Lampert, Laurence

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Plato dispersed his account of how Socrates became Socrates across three dialogues. Thus, Plato rendered his becoming discoverable only to readers truly invested. In How Socrates Became Socrates, Laurence Lampert recognizes the path of Platos strides and guides us through the true account of Socrates becoming. He divulges how and why Plato ordered his Phaedo, Parmenides, and Symposium chronologically to give readers access to Socrates development on philosophys fundamental questions of being and knowing.In addition to a careful and precise analysis of Platos Phaedo,Parmenides, and Symposium, Lampert shows that properly entwined, Platos three dialogues fuse to portray a young thinker entering philosophys true radical power. Lampert reveals why this radicality needed to be guarded and places this discussion within the greater scheme of the politics of philosophy.