Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury: Standard Edition / II. Moral and Political Philosophy. Band 5: Chartæ Socraticæ: Design of a Socratick History

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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.