Cross-examining Socrates : a defense of the interlocutors in Plato's early dialogues
"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."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2000
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K., 2000
xii, 416 pages ; 23 cm
9780521550581, 0521550580
40783796
The Socratic interlocutor
Elenchus and sincere assent
Crito
Ion
Hippias
Laches and Nicias
Charmides and Critias
Euthyphro
Cephalus
Polemarchus
Thrasymachus
Hippocrates
Protagoras
Gorgias
Polus
Callicles
The last days of the Socratic interlocutor
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