This paper aims to collect and present substantial evidence of Hans Jonas’s interpretation of Socratic philosophy. Starting from a strong appreciation of Socrates’s research method – a positive evaluation widely found in many passages of his works published by Jonas during his life as well as in some unpublished texts – this article will devote more specific attention to a short, but highly significant paper: Socratic Virtue and Wisdom. After examining the close interconnection existing between some Socratic key-concepts ( for example: nature, good, ends, knowledge), Jonas here presents Socrates as the champion of a strong idea of theoria, intended as knowledge of the essence and based on a form of (unacceptable) dualism even more radical than the Platonic dualistic approach.
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