Cross-Examining Socrates : A Defense of the Interlocutors in Plato's Early Dialogues.
Beversluis, John.
Cross-Examining Socrates : A Defense of the Interlocutors in Plato's Early Dialogues. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (427 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 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 -- Bibliography -- Index of passages cited -- Index of names -- Index of modern authors -- General index.
This book is a re-reading of the early dialogues of Plato from the point of view of the people with whom Socrates engages in debate. It takes these interlocutors seriously and treats them as genuine intellectual opponents whose views are often more defensible than commentators have standardly thought.
9780511152375
Plato.--Dialogues.
Electronic books.
B395 .B445 2000
184
Cross-Examining Socrates : A Defense of the Interlocutors in Plato's Early Dialogues. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (427 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 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 -- Bibliography -- Index of passages cited -- Index of names -- Index of modern authors -- General index.
This book is a re-reading of the early dialogues of Plato from the point of view of the people with whom Socrates engages in debate. It takes these interlocutors seriously and treats them as genuine intellectual opponents whose views are often more defensible than commentators have standardly thought.
9780511152375
Plato.--Dialogues.
Electronic books.
B395 .B445 2000
184