Claudia Marsico (éd.), Socrates and the Socratic Philosophies.

Socratic Hubris; A Way to Understanding Socrates Trial and Execution

There are several debates around why Socrates executed but none of them has explained why he executed at seventy. I think Socratic hubris can explain it. In fact, if we refer to “earlier Socrates” dialogues that cover life of Socrates from youth to seventy years, it is obvious that Socrates on effort to find and present a good life appealed to speech and used it to cross-examine Athenians. Howe...

Socrates on Simonides: The use of poetry in Socratic and Platonic rhetoric

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The Socratic Bergson

Philosophies

Murray, 1910. Price, Is. net. We have in another column dealt with Major Ronald Ross as a practical hygienist and scientific worker, in this little volume we meet him in a capacity unexpected and unknown to many. The little volume entitled Philosophies contain verses written in India between 1881 and 1809, and many of them when occupied with his well-known malaria researches. We have read the m...

Socratic Trees

We consider the method of Socratic proofs (SP-method). SP-method enables a formal explication of the idea of solving logical problems (i.e problems of entailment/ derivability/ theoremhood) by pure questioning, that is, by transforming the relevant initial question into consecutive questions without making any use of answers to the questions just transformed. Our aim is to give a method of tran...