Cross-examining Socrates : a defense of the interlocutors in Plato's early dialogues / John Beversluis.
This book is a rereading of the early dialogues of Plato from the point of view of the people with whom Socrates engages in debate. Existing studies are thoroughly dismissive of the interlocutors and reduce them to the status of mere mouthpieces for views that are hopelessly confused or demonstrably...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2000.
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| Summary: | This book is a rereading of the early dialogues of Plato from the point of view of the people with whom Socrates engages in debate. Existing studies are thoroughly dismissive of the interlocutors and reduce them to the status of mere mouthpieces for views that 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 generally thought. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 416 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 384-397) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 0511017219 9780511017216 9780521550581 0521550580 051115237X 9780511152375 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |