Cross-Examining Socrates : A Defense of the Interlocutors in Plato's Early Dialogues.
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- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780511152375
- 184
- B395 .B445 2000
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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