Description
Kierkegaard’s first book was The Concept of Irony: With Continual Reference to Socrates. Kierkegaard was the first philosopher to directly address the self and what it means to be a self. George Leone discusses how Kierkegaard developed his ideas of the self while doing research on his first book. Leone demonstrates how the notion of self was incipient in the early Socratic dialogues of Plato.
George Leone has graduate degrees in both philosophy and counseling. He is a retired professor who spent most of his university life teaching in graduate counseling programs, and taught occasional undergraduate philosophy courses. He has written a book on the Danish existential philosopher Kierkegaard, and has another book in pre-publication, The Emergence of Wisdom in Ancient Greek Philosophy.