Socrates and Philosophy in the Dialogues of Plato by Sandra Peterson
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Overview: Through the close reading of passages in the Theaetetus, Republic and Phaedo, Sandra Peterson presents a new theory regarding the contrasting portrayals of Socrates in Plato’s dialogues, arguing that there is a single Socrates whose conception and practice of philosophy remain the same throughout the dialogues.
- In Plato’s Apology, Socrates says he spent his life examining and questioning people on how best to live, while avowing that he himself knows nothing important. Elsewhere, however, for example in Plato’s Republic, Plato’s Socrates presents radical and grandiose theses. In this book Sandra Peterson offers a new hypothesis which explains the puzzle of Socrates’ two contrasting manners. She argues that the apparently confident doctrinal Socrates is in fact conducting the first step of an examination: by eliciting his interlocutors’ reactions, his apparently doctrinal lectures reveal what his interlocutors believe is the best way to live. She tests her hypothesis by close reading of passages in the Theaetetus, Republic and Phaedo. Her provocative conclusion, that there is a single Socrates whose conception and practice of philosophy remain the same throughout the dialogues, will be of interest to a wide range of readers in ancient philosophy and classics.
Genre: Nonfiction, Philosophy.
Socrates and Philosophy in the Dialogues of Plato
- Sandra Peterson writer
Published by Cambridge University Press, 2011. 310 pages.
About the Author:
- Sandra Peterson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
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