Socrates among Strangers, by Joseph P Lawrence
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In Socrates among Strangers, Joseph P. Lawrence reclaims the enigmatic sage from those who have seen him either as a prophet of science, seeking the security of knowledge, or as a wily actor who shed light on the dangerous world of politics while maintaining a prudent distance from it. The Socrates Lawrence seeks is the imprudent one, the man who knew how to die.
The institutionalization of philosophy in the modern world has come at the cost of its most vital concern: the achievement of life wisdom. Those who have ceased to grow (those who think they know) close their ears to the wisdom of strangers—and Socrates, who stood face to face with death, is the archetypal stranger. His avowal of ignorance, Lawrence suggests, is more needed than ever in an age defined by technical mastery and expert knowledge.
Socrates among Strangers, by Joseph P Lawrence- Amazon Sales Rank: #1758332 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-30
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .70" w x 6.00" l, .72 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 232 pages
About the Author Joseph P. Lawrence is a professor of philosophy at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. "Know thyself!" By William M. Shea At one point I wanted to be a philosopher. What guided me and enflamed my desire were a very few books and even fewer outstanding teachers. Kant’s Critique and Religion within the Limits of Reason, Hume’s god-awful work on religion, Locke’s not quite so awful attempt to save religion from itself, William James and John Dewey, and, most importantly, Bernard Lonergan’s Insight: a Study in Human Understanding (1957) . Socrates, Plato and Aristotle wrote very provocative stuff and, read in concert with many others, provided plenty of “foundations” for the philosophical quest. I thought I understood the goals and methods of genuine philosophy but, once degreed and employed to work on religious issues, I forgot them.So it’s a joy to be “awakened” again after sixty years of academic sleepwalking by a book that I happened upon, written by a master teacher and a genuine philosopher who, through the medium of his work on Socrates and the personal effects of the Kobe earthquake, knows that philosophy is not a technical chase but personal, life-long quest for and discipline of the philosopher’s self . “Know thyself” controls the discourse on life and death, and centers on Socrates’ own life and death. Lawrence knows Socrates and the literature on him, he knows well the shelf of options on the bargain table of contemporary philosophy. He has thought through them all (through and under, really), and has retrieved the genuine article in the model, Socrates. The phrase “Among Strangers” specifies Lawrence’s view of Socrates who is always a stranger to those around him and even to himself. But that is what a philosopher is and should be! It is out of that tension created by our strangeness that wisdom is born.Lawrence writes a first class book that is an encouragement to myself and other amateurs. But I warn you: the waters here run deep! I can’t wait to read the reviews by the pros.
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Highly recommended. Socrates comes to life! By Amazon Customer This is a must-have book. Think along with Joseph P. Lawrence in this page-turner on Plato's Socrates. As any student of Lawrence would surely attest, he is a unique and extraordinary thinker. And his creative spirit is not lost in his written work. Each page of this book is packed with deep insight. Socrates comes to life in this masterful work.Lawrence begins this remarkable book by accusing the contemporary academy of repressing the spirit of Plato’s Socrates. Predominant scholarly norms would have us remove first-person narrative from our philosophical work. It would have us speak and write as if we could separate our arguments from our lives, our personal stories, and our embodiment. But if Plato’s Socrates was anything, he was a person. He engaged in dialogue with his interlocutors in order to come to know them as people. As such, he should constitute the guiding spirit of the humanities. But, according to Lawrence, the humanities have lost their way as scholars have emulated the objectivity of the sciences.The proof he is right is simple. Having written his book in the immediate aftermath of the Kobe Earthquake, which he experienced firsthand, Lawrence adopted the first-person narrative himself. He told the story of what happened and how it made him take to heart the Socratic notion that philosophy is learning how to die. But, as a result, his book was initially rejected by scholars who presumably were made uncomfortable by the disarming sincerity of the writing. With the book’s publication some twenty years later, Lawrence now wins the argument. Socrates was a teacher. It is as a teacher, not as a scholar, that Lawrence opens up the soul of the enigmatic father of philosophy. I defy anyone to find a conventional work of scholarship, whether analytic or continental, that does the job better.
2 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Essential reading for anyone interested in Socrates By jfz In this measured, thoughtful, book Lawrence found his direct experience of the 1995 Great Hanshin earthquake in Kobe, Japan forced him into a brilliant rethinking of personhood and message of Socrates, well beyond the categories of contemporary academic philosophy. In an impressively documented reconsideration of the depiction of Socrates by Plato and other Greek contemporaries Lawrence argues that Socrates in facing death escaped the tautologies of linguistic, hermeneutic, analytic, empirical, rational examinations and came to embrace “true earth” and a general “truth” that delivered saturated life through death. Lawrence’s dazzling discussion fuses all elements of current philosophic inquiry with near poetic borrowings from Persian mysticism and Japanese Buddhist thought. Socrates Among Strangers is commandingly original, forging a new, deep pathway into cross-cultural philosophy.
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