Cross-Examining Socrates: A Defense of the Interlocutors in Plato's Early Dialogues

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Cambridge University Press, 6. 1. 2000 - Počet stran: 416
This book is a rereading 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. Existing studies 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 interlocutors 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 summarise 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.

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Introduction
1
The Socratic interlocutor
18
Elenchus and sincere assent
37
Crito
59
Ion
75
Hippias
94
Laches and Nicias III
111
Charmides and Critias
135
Thrasymachus
221
Hippocrates
245
Protagoras
257
Gorgias
291
Polus
315
Callicles
339
The last days of the Socratic interlocutor
377
Bibliography
384

Euthyphro
160
Cephalus
185
ΙΟ Polemarchus
203

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