ANTISTHENÉS: PRAKTICKÝ CHARAKTER SÓKRATOVSKEJ ETIKY

• Authors: Suvák Vladislav

Title variants

EN

Antisthenes: Practical Socratic ethics

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The paper gives an outline of Antisthenes' ethics. The first part questions the accounts of modern historians, who try to include Antisthenes in one or other philosophical schools of that time (sophistics, socratism, cynicism). In the second part it shows the affiliations between Antisthenes' thinking and Socratic tradition: It comes out, that the interconnection between the former and sophistics and cynicism might have come into existence as late as in the later doxographic accounts of his doctrine. The third part deals in more details with the writings Kyros and Heracles, which exemplify a mimetic depiction of the way of acting of a Socratic sapient. The analysis of the preserved fragments shows that the Antisthenian ethics is practical differing from the Platonic conception of practice in that in moral knowledge and moral action became one. Thus it represents a non-theoretical expansion of Socratic ethics and as such cannot be grasped by the classical approaches which draw a sharp line between socratics and sophistics.

Keywords

EN

ANTISTHENES; CYNICISM; ETHICS; PLATO; SOCRATES; SOPHISTS

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 65
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 239-248
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Suvák Vladislav

• Doc. Mgr. Vladislav Suvak, PhD., Institut filozofie a estetiky PU, ul. 17. novembra 1, 080 01 Presov, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10SKAAAA08893