By John Beversluis

This ebook is a rereading of Plato's early dialogues from the perspective of the characters with whom Socrates engages in debate. Socrates' interlocutors are as a rule said to play very important dialectical and dramatic roles, yet no past ebook has centred normally on them. latest stories are completely dismissive of the interlocutors and decrease them to the prestige of mere mouthpieces for perspectives that are hopelessly stressed or demonstrably fake. This publication takes interlocutors heavily and treats them as actual highbrow rivals whose perspectives are usually extra defensible than commentators have standardly idea. The author's objective isn't to summarise their positions or the arguments of the dialogues during which they seem, less to supply a chain of biographical sketches, yet to enquire the phenomenology of philosophical disputation because it manifests itself within the early dialogues.

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