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基本説明
Colaiaco's approach is unique because he does justice both to Socrates and to Athens by demonstrating their individual strengths and weaknesses - and ultimately, their tragic incompatibility.
Full Description
As an essential companion to Plato's Apology and Crito,Socrates Against Athens provides valuable historical and cultural context to our understanding of the trial.
Contents
; 1. Introduction: A Tragic Confrontation; 2. Setting the Stage for the Trial; Preliminaries; Historicity of the Apology; 3. Socrates and Rhetoric; Athens-City of Speech; Socrates' Opening Remarks: Dismantling Forensic Rhetoric; 4. Socrates Confronts His Old Accusers; Socrates and Aristophanes' Clouds; Socrates Denies He is a Teacher of Natural Science; Socrates Denies He is a Sophist; 5. Socrates' Radical Philosophic Mission; The Delphic Oracle; Socrates Examines the Politicians, Poets, and Craftsmen; The Mask of Ignorance; Solving the Riddle of the Oracle; 6. The Athenian Polis Ideal; The Funeral Oration of Pericles: Apotheosis of the Polis; Homeric Shame Culture; Democracy Appropriates Homer; The Polis and the Individual; 7. Socrates Confronts His Present Accusers: The Interrogation of Meletus; Corrupting the Young; The Polis as Teacher; Athenian Polis Religion; Socrates and Impiety; 8. Socrates Brings the Philosophic Mission into the Court; Death Bears No Sting; Caring for One's Soul; Stepping Up the Offense; The Gadfly; 9. The Politics of an Unpolitical Man; A Private Rather than a Public Station; Socrates' Divine Voice; Defender of Justice; 10. The Trial Concludes: Socrates Condemned; The Corruption Charge Revisited; Rejecting an Appeal for Sympathy; Proposing a Counterpenalty; Truth Fails to Persuade; Parting Words to Enemies; Parting Words to Friends; 11. Socrates and Civil Disobedience: The Crito; Socrates and Antigone; Socrates Dismisses the Shame Culture; Justice and the Soul; Socrates Argues for the Laws; The Skillful Ironist; Fulfilling the Will of a Benevolent God; 12. Conclusion: A Conflict Unresolved; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index