Socrates, Ironist and Moral Philosopher
Author: Gregory Vlastos
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780801497872
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The author shows us a Socrates who, though he has been long overshadowed by his successors Plato and Aristotle, represented the true turning point in Greek philosophy, religion and ethics. In his quest for the historical Socrates, the author focuses on Plato's earlier dialogues, setting the Socrates we find there in sharp contrast to the Socrates of later dialogues, in which he is used as a mouthpiece for Plato's own doctrines, many of them anti-Socratic in nature." [Back cover].