{"product_id":"socrates-ironist-and-moral-philosopher-gregory-vlastos-9780801497872","title":"Socrates, Ironist and Moral Philosopher: Civilian Control of Nuclear Weapons in the United States","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Gregory Vlastos's book begins from the conviction that Socrates' strangeness is 'the key to his philosophy.' It is a marvelous book, in which no major aspect of Socrates' career is eclipsed. The rigor of his arguments, the depth of his moral commitment and understanding, his complex relationship to Athenian ethical traditions, his rational religion: all this comes to life in writing whose vigor and lucidity put the challenge of Socrates squarely before the reader.... \u003cb\u003eIt deserves as much honor as any work of scholarship in Greek philosophy in this century.\u003c\/b\u003e\"\u003cbr\u003e-- Martha C. Nussbaum ― \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis vivid and compelling study of Socrates's moral philosophy and, more generally, of his moral outlook and his attitude toward religion and society, reclaims the remarkable originality of his thought. Gregory Vlastos shows us a Socrates who, though he has been long overshadowed by his successors, Plato and Aristotle, represented the true turning point in Greek attitude toward philosophy, religion, and ethics. In his quest for the historical Socrates, Vlastos 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the heart of the book is Vlastos's perception of the paradoxical nature of Socratic thought. But Vlastos explains the paradoxes rather than explaining them away, and he highlights the tensions in the Socratic search for the answer to the question: How should we live?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe magnetic quality of Socrates' personality emerges throughout his book. \u003cb\u003eClearly and elegantly written, subtle in its arguments yet entirely accessible to non-specialists, this is major work in ancient philosophy and the history of Western thought.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gregory Vlastos\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0801497876\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801497872\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/25\/1991\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 334\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.95h x 6.02w x 0.90d","brand":"Gregory Vlastos","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43988259373311,"sku":"9780801497872","price":37.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cd6f51a8-a406-4e2d-b231-82d886bbea11.jpg?v=1683293521","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/socrates-ironist-and-moral-philosopher-gregory-vlastos-9780801497872","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}