Plato's Socratic Conversation

Name: Plato's Socratic Conversation
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By Stokes, G. M. A.

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This study focuses on Laches, Protagoras, and the conversation between Socrates and Agathon in the Symposium. For these dialogues the author "proposes a strategy of interpretation that insists on the dialogues' essentially interrogatory character. . . . Stokes argues that we are not entitled to ascribea thesis to Socrates (far less to Plato) unless he unambiguously asserts it as his own belief. . . . For the most part, Stokes argues, Socrates is doing what he claims to be doing: cross-examining his interlocutor. He draws the materials of his own argument from the respondent's explicit admissions and from his own knowledge of the respondent's character, commitments and ways of life.What is shown by such a procedure is not, . . . [according to Stokes], that acertain thesis is true or false, but, rather, that a certain sort of person, with certain commitments, can be led, on pain of inconsistency, to assent to theses that at first seem alien to him. Sometimes, as it turns out, these are theses that Socrates also endorses in his own person." Times Literary Supplement

Product details

Edition:

1

Number of Pages:

536

Release Date:

2001-01-30

Publication Date:

2000-12-01

Publisher:

Bloomsbury 3PL

Languages:

Original: English

ISBN10:

0485112507

ISBN13:

9780485112504

GPSR Manufacturer Reference:

[email protected]

Weight:

798 g

Height:

145 cm

Width:

222 cm

Thickness:

32 cm

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