Socratic Philosophy and the Cleitophon
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10432175 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark Kremer (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 479-502 |
| Publication date | 2000-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Review of Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-6705 • E-ISSN: 1748-6858 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0034670500041668 |
| OpenAlex | W2110440623 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
In the Cleitophon , Cleitophon abandons Socrates because he could not provide an art of justice that would bring an end to strife by eliminating cities, families, and the love of one's own on which they depend. Cleitophon's disappointment in reason prepares us for the misology of his legal positivism in the Republic . Although Socrates does not refute Cleitophon, Plato points to the deficiencies of art and legal positivism by pointing to poetic foils. By pointing to the poetic, Plato shows what is sound in poetry and the city informed by it, and, therewith, what they share with Socrates despite their ultimate differences. By not having his Socrates succumb to the promises of art and the irrational conformism of legal positivism, and by pointing to the humane learning of the poets, Plato opens a window on to the meaning of Socratic wisdom and the Socratic life
Art · Disappointment · Economic Justice · Epistemology · Irrational number · Linguistics · Literature · Meaning (existential · Poetry · Political science · Positivism · SOCRATES · Socratic method · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |