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Peter Warnek: Descent of socrates: Self-knowledge & cryptic nature in the platonic dialogues

Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis, 2005, 234 pp, ISBN 0-253-34677-0, US$70.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-253-21816-0, US$26.95 (paper)

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Notes

  1. The meaning of “cryptic” throughout the text must be heard in relation to the Heraclitean aphorism: “physis krupresthai philei”—“nature loves to hide” (fr. 123), see Diels (1996).

  2. For a formulation of alētheia along these lines see Heidegger’s (1972).

  3. Warnek himself identifies the tradition of readings within which this book should be situated. It belongs to the approaches taken up by such thinkers as: Schleiermacher, Gadamer, Strauss, Klein, Benardete and Sallis (213n.3).

  4. Strauss suggests this in relation to Aristophantic comedy, particularly as it relates to Strauss’s own reading of the Republic. See Strauss (1964).

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  • Heidegger’s, Martin. 1972. The end of philosophy and the task of thinking. In On Time and Being, 71. New York: Harper and Row.

  • Strauss, Leo. 1964. The city and man, 62. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

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Long, C.P. Peter Warnek: Descent of socrates: Self-knowledge & cryptic nature in the platonic dialogues. Cont Philos Rev 45, 291–295 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11007-012-9214-0

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