Plato's Socratic Conversations

Drama and Dialectic in Three Dialogues

Michael C. Stokes (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

536 Seiten

2000
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. (Verlag)
978-0-485-11250-4 (ISBN)

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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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.12.2000
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 220 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-485-11250-7 / 0485112507
ISBN-13	978-0-485-11250-4 / 9780485112504
Zustand	Neuware