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“Socratic” Dialogues
| Resumo: | When one reads the Platonic dialogues, one faces the basic question what exactly Socrates stands for. Does “Socrates”, the main speaker of most of Plato’s dialogues, represent the philosophy of the author or of the latter’s teacher, i.e. himself ? e answers, or the ways to answer this question, vary considerably among the scholars, particularly of different traditions. Platonic scholars of our age tend to view some dialogues as Socratic, in the sense that they represent the historical figure of Socrates, or that they represent an earlier stage in Plato’s philosophical views that is faithful to Socrates. According to this view, a certain group of texts is demarcated and called the “Socratic” dialogues, in sharp contrast to the “Platonic” dialogues, which are supposed to contain Plato’s original thinking, e.g. the theory of transcendent Forms, the tripartition of the soul, mathematical education, and the political idea of the “philosopher-king”.On the other hand, there are scholars who deny the separation of the two groups and see in all the dialogues nothing other than Plato’s own philosophy. e appellation “Socratic dialogues” appears in titles of monographs and articles, but each scholar uses it in his or her own way, and includes a different set of dialogues in the list of the “Socratic” dialogues. Yet, interpretative assumptions underlie all delineations of so-called “Socratic dialogues”. |
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| Autores principais: | Bonazzi, Mauro |
| Outros Autores: | Dorion, Louis-André; Hatano, Tomoko; Notomi, Noburu; van Ackeren, Marcel |
| Ano: | 2009 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Tipo de acesso: | unknown |
| Instituição associada: | Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Plato Journal |
| Resumo: | When one reads the Platonic dialogues, one faces the basic question what exactly Socrates stands for. Does “Socrates”, the main speaker of most of Plato’s dialogues, represent the philosophy of the author or of the latter’s teacher, i.e. himself ? e answers, or the ways to answer this question, vary considerably among the scholars, particularly of different traditions. Platonic scholars of our age tend to view some dialogues as Socratic, in the sense that they represent the historical figure of Socrates, or that they represent an earlier stage in Plato’s philosophical views that is faithful to Socrates. According to this view, a certain group of texts is demarcated and called the “Socratic” dialogues, in sharp contrast to the “Platonic” dialogues, which are supposed to contain Plato’s original thinking, e.g. the theory of transcendent Forms, the tripartition of the soul, mathematical education, and the political idea of the “philosopher-king”.On the other hand, there are scholars who deny the separation of the two groups and see in all the dialogues nothing other than Plato’s own philosophy. e appellation “Socratic dialogues” appears in titles of monographs and articles, but each scholar uses it in his or her own way, and includes a different set of dialogues in the list of the “Socratic” dialogues. Yet, interpretative assumptions underlie all delineations of so-called “Socratic dialogues”. |
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