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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000Copyright date: ©2000Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (427 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780511152375
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Cross-Examining SocratesDDC classification:
  • 184
LOC classification:
  • B395 .B445 2000
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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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