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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

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. It deserves as much honor as any work of scholarship in Greek philosophy in this century.

Gregory Vlastos (/ˈvlæstoʊs/; Greek: Γρηγόριος Βλαστός; July 27, 1907 – October 12, 1991) was a scholar of ancient philosophy, and author of several works on Plato and Socrates. A Christian, Vlastos also wrote about Christian faith. He is considered to be "a preeminent scholar on Socrates who transformed the analysis of classical philosophy.

Gregory Vlastos (1907-1992) was a member of the Department of. .

Gregory Vlastos (1907-1992) was a member of the Department of Philosophy at Princeton 1955-1976. When he graduated from Constantinople’s Robert College in 1925, Vlastos's family, hearing of their son’s proposal to continue his studies in America, warned that if he went, he would lose his soul. Vlastos spent the last ten years of his life refining his new image and coming to terms with Socrates as he had now come to understand him. His efforts culminated in the publication just before his death of his last book, Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher.

This long-awaited study of the most enigmatic figure of Greek philosophy reclaims Socrates’ ground-breaking originality. Written by a leading historian of Greek thought, it argues for a Socrates who, though long overshadowed by his successors Plato and Aristotle, marked the true turning point in Greek philosophy, religion and ethics. The quest for the historical figure focuses on the Socrates of Plato’s earlier dialogues, setting him in sharp contrast to that other Socrates of later dialogues, where he is used as a mouthpiece for Plato’s often anti-Socratic doctrine

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See if your friends have read any of Gregory Vlastos's books. Gregory Vlastos’s Followers (7). Gregory Vlastos. Gregory Vlastos’s books. Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher.

Introduction: the paradox of Socrates, by G. Vlastos. Our knowledge of Socrates, by A. R. Lacey. Socrates in the Clouds, by K. J. Dover. Elenchus, by R. Robinson.

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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. At the heart of the book is Vlastos's perception of the paradoxical nature of Socratic thought.

Socrates is a major character in Mary Renault's historical novel The Last of the Wine  . Gregory Vlastos (1991).

Socrates is a major character in Mary Renault's historical novel The Last of the Wine A humorous version of the deceased Socrates appears in John Kendrick Bangs's comic novel A House-Boat on the Styx and its sequels. Socrates, Ironist and Moral Philosopher. Cornell University Press.

University of Notre Dame Press (1980). Essays on Socrates Gregory Vlastos (E. : The Philosophy of Socrates. Gregory Vlastos - 1971 - Garden City, . Vlastos, G. Introduction: the paradox of Socrates. Lacey, A. Our knowledge of Socrates. Dover, K. Socrates in the Clouds. Robinson, R. Elenchus. Elenchus, direct and indirect. Socratic definition. Nakhnikian, G. Elenctic definitions. Cohen, S. M. Socrates on the definition of piety: Euthyphro. A Collection of Critical Essays. Added to PP index 2009-01-28.