How Long to Read Socratic Ignorance and Platonic Knowledge in the Dialogues of Plato

How Long Does it Take to Read Socratic Ignorance and Platonic Knowledge in the Dialogues of Plato?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 7 minutes to read Socratic Ignorance and Platonic Knowledge in the Dialogues of Plato by Sara Ahbel-Rappe

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Argues that Socrates’ fundamental role in the dialogues is to guide us toward self-inquiry and self-knowledge. In this highly original and provocative book, Sara Ahbel-Rappe argues that the Platonic dialogues contain an esoteric Socrates who signifies a profound commitment to self-knowledge and whose appearances in the dialogues are meant to foster the practice of self-inquiry. According to Ahbel-Rappe, the elenchus, or inner examination, and the thesis that virtue is knowledge, are tools for a contemplative practice that teaches us how to investigate the mind and its objects directly. In other words, the Socratic persona of the dialogues represents wisdom, which is distinct from and serves as the larger space in which Platonic knowledge—ethics, epistemology, and metaphysics—is constructed. Ahbel-Rappe offers complete readings of the Apology, Charmides, Alcibiades I, Euthyphro, Lysis, Phaedrus, Theaetetus, and Parmenides, as well as parts of the Republic. Her interpretation challenges two common approaches to the figure of Socrates: the thesis that the dialogues represent an “early” Plato who later disavows his reliance on Socratic wisdom, and the thesis that Socratic ethics can best be expressed by the construct of eudaimonism or egoism. Sara Ahbel-Rappe is Professor of Greek and Latin at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Socrates: A Guide for the Perplexed and Reading Neoplatonism: Non-discursive Thinking in the Texts of Plotinus, Proclus, and Damascius; translator of Damascius’s Problems and Solutions Concerning First Principles; and coeditor (with Rachana Kamtekar) of A Companion to Socrates.

How long is Socratic Ignorance and Platonic Knowledge in the Dialogues of Plato?

Socratic Ignorance and Platonic Knowledge in the Dialogues of Plato by Sara Ahbel-Rappe is 298 pages long, and a total of 76,884 words.

This makes it 101% the length of the average book. It also has 94% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Socratic Ignorance and Platonic Knowledge in the Dialogues of Plato Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours to read Socratic Ignorance and Platonic Knowledge in the Dialogues of Plato aloud.

What Reading Level is Socratic Ignorance and Platonic Knowledge in the Dialogues of Plato?

Socratic Ignorance and Platonic Knowledge in the Dialogues of Plato is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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