Socrates' Criteria: A Libertarian Interpretation Paperback – December 8, 2011 by Tommi Juhani Hanhijarvi

ISBN: 9780761857471

University Press of America 08 December 2011

Paperback | 118 pages

This book’s argument is that for Socrates, freedom, or rational agency, requires definitions. Socrates is freedom’s advocate; he is not an early epistemologist or semanticist. Due to this, he is still relevant to current philosophy. Certain recursive or performative acts of definition are free in being fully conscious, deliberate, or self‑sufficient. They are self‑predicating Forms. The search for them is free in a different sense, namely in relating to everything beyond itself. Moreover, that search is moral. For being self‑relational, the Forms are not identifiable from without; they could be anywhere and so must be sought everywhere. Anyone could turn out to be one’s liberator, so one must respect each of one’s interlocutors, as Socrates does when asking questions. :contentReference[oaicite:0]{index=0}