| Description |
xii, 416 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. The Socratic interlocutor -- 2. Elenchus and sincere assent -- 3. Crito -- 4. Ion -- 5. Hippias -- 6. Laches and Nicias -- 7. Charmides and Critias -- 8. Euthyphro -- 9. Cephalus -- 10. Polemarchus -- 11. Thrasymachus -- 12. Hippocrates -- 13. Protagoras -- 14. Gorgias -- 15. Polus -- 16. Callicles -- 17. The last days of the Socratic interlocutor |
| Summary |
"This book is a re-reading of Plato's early dialogues from the point of view of the characters with whom Socrates engages in debate. Socrates' interlocutors are generally acknowledged to play important dialectical and dramatic roles, but no previous book has focused mainly on them. Unlike existing studies, which are thoroughly dismissive of the interlocutors and reduce them to the status of mere mouthpieces for views which are hopelessly confused or demonstrably false, this book takes them seriously and treats them as genuine intellectual opponents whose views are often more defensible than commentators have standardly thought. The author's purpose is not to summarize their positions or the arguments of the dialogues in which they appear, much less to produce a series of biographical sketches, but to investigate the phenomenology of philosophical disputation as it manifests itself in the early dialogues."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Plato. Dialogues.
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Socrates.
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Philosophy, Ancient.
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Sophists (Greek philosophy)
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| LC no. |
99011232 |
| ISBN |
0521550580 : |
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