Chartae Socraticae: Design of a Socratick History (Shaftesbury

by Anthony Ashley Cooper, A Owen Aldridge (Editor), Gerd Hemmerich (Editor)

Geplant als Heranfuhrung an das vorbildhafte Leben und Denken des Sokrates in Form einer kommentierten Ausgabe (griechisch-englisch) derjenigen Texte, die Shaftesbury fur authentisch hielt (allen voran die sokratischen Schriften Xenophons), blieb das Werk am Ende ein Entwurf. Die hier erstmals edierten Aufzeichnungen verdeutlichen jedoch, dass das Sokratesbuch als philosophische Abhandlung konzipiert wurde; besonders aufschlussreich ist das Werk fur Shaftesburys eigene Socratick Philosophy. Der Band bietet eine ausfuhrliche Einleitung, samtliche Textstucke und hilfreiche Erlauterungen. Planned as an introduction to the exemplary life and thinking of Socrates in the form of an annotated edition (Greek-English) of those texts which Shaftesbury believed were authentic, (first of all Xenophon's Socratic writings), the work ultimately remained a draft only. The notes published here for the first time do however make it clear that the Socrates book was conceived as a philosophical treatise. The work is particularly revealing for Shaftesbury's own Socratick Philosophy. The book provides a detailed introduction, all the texts and helpful explanations.

342 pages, Hardcover

Published December 10, 2007

About the author

Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury was an English politician, philosopher and writer.

He was born at Exeter House in London, the son of the future Anthony Ashley Cooper, 2nd Earl of Shaftesbury and his wife Lady Dorothy Manners, daughter of John Manners, 8th Earl of Rutland. At the age of three he was made over to the formal guardianship of his grandfather Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury. John Locke, as medical attendant to the Ashley household, was entrusted with the supervision of his education.