Exemplary Lives: Montaigne and Socrates.

Journal title RIVISTA DI STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA
Author/s Antonella Del Prete
Publishing Year 2023 Issue 2023/1 Language Italian
Pages 16 P. 70-85 File size 205 KB
DOI 10.3280/SF2023-001006
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Montaigne is usually inscribed in the crisis of exemplarity that characterizes the end of the Middle Ages. Through the different editions of the Essais, this article follows how he constructs his own notion of virtue and connects it to a relentless reinterpretation of the figure of Socrates. The results of this investigation show that this example is not normative because it involves a rigid application of an ideal, but because it is a model of a search for virtue that is capable of constructing a mutably ordered self.

Keywords: Montaigne, exemplarism, virtue, Socrates.

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Antonella Del Prete, Vite esemplari: Montaigne e Socrate in "RIVISTA DI STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA" 1/2023, pp 70-85, DOI: 10.3280/SF2023-001006