The Ontology of Socratic Questioning in Plato's Early Dialogu... - 9781438444048

The Ontology of Socratic Questioning in Plato's Early DialoguesAuthor(s): Sean D. Kirkland\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: State University of New York Press, United States\nImprint: State University of New York Press\nISBN-13: 9781438444048, 978-1438444048\nSynopsis\nA provocative close reading revealing a radical, proto-phenomenological Socrates.\n\nWinner of the 2013 Symposium Book Award, presented by the Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy \n\nModern interpreters of Plato's Socrates have generally taken the dialogues to be aimed at working out objective truth. Attending closely to the texts of the early dialogues and the question of virtue in particular, Sean D. Kirkland suggests that this approach is flawed-that such concern with discovering external facts rests on modern assumptions that would have been far from the minds of Socrates and his contemporaries. This isn't, however, to accuse Socrates of any kind of relativism. Through careful analysis of the origin.