Sublime

The matters that are suitable for treatment by the Socratic method are those as to which we have already enough knowledge to come to a right conclusion, but have failed, through confusion of thought or lack of analysis, to make the best logical use of what we know. A question such as “what is justice?” is eminently suited for discussion in a

Knowing oneself requires self-examination, but not in a sense that would come most naturally to contemporary readers. Instead, self-examination as understood by Socrates requires investigating, through debate and dialogue, the contours of concepts that seem necessary for living a good life: knowledge, justice, virtue, piety, and the like.

Socrates as a new kind of model for Montaigne, Nietzsche and Foucault. For each of these philosophers Socrates was a positive and negative ideal; but also an essentially puzzling and paradoxical and therefore inspiring model.

(mathein) anything,” summarizes Armstrong, “but to have an experience (pathein) and a radical change of mind (diatethenai).”

Élevée au rang de mythe fondateur de la philosophie, l’Apologie de Socrate expose les exigences d’une vie vertueuse telle que la défend Socrate : amour du savoir, souci du vrai, recherche de l’acte et du mot justes.