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.
Notes
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 384-397) and indexes.
Language note
English
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.
ISBN
0-511-15237-X
0-511-01721-9
OCLC
49797183
923615831
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