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

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2000
ISBN
9780511017216, 9780521550581, 9780521607599, 0521550580, 0521607590
Open Library ID
OL7746062M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1652486 bytes)
Pages
432\429
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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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