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

Name: Cross-Examining Socrates A Defense of the Interlocutors in Plato's Early Dialogues
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ISBN: 9780521607599

ISBN-10: 0521607590

ISBN-13: 9780521607599

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Authors: John Beversluis

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This book is a re-reading of Platos early dialogues from the point of view of the characters with whom Socrates engages in debate. Socrates interlocutors are generally acknowledged to play important dialectical and dramatic roles, but no previous book has focused mainly on them. Existing studies are thoroughly dismissive of the interlocutors and reduce them to the status of mere mouthpieces for views which are hopelessly confused or demonstrably false. This book takes interlocutors seriously and treats them as genuine intellectual opponents whose views are often more defensible than commentators have standardly thought. The authors purpose is not to summarise their positions or the…

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List price: $55.99
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/5/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.22" wide x 9.25" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.606
Language: English

John Beversluis (Carmel, CA), now semi-retired, taught philosophy for many years at Butler University in Indianapolis, IN. He is the author of Cross-examining Socrates (2000) and a number of articles in various philosophical journals.



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