Add to ORKGThroughout the corpus Plato presents the character of Socrates consistently: two constant features of his behaviour are a lack of αὐτάρκεια, in the sense of an autonoumous path to knowledge, and his absolute sincerity. Socrates always acts in response to an external factor that leads him on a quest, which develops along the lines of the examination of an interlocutor, or of a proposition, a dream, an oracle, or a παλαιὸς λόγος. The peculiarities of Socrates' mask thus satisfy the need for a character who, lacking any individual presuppositions, abides completely by the method of the φιλόσοφος: an examination carried through conversational method (διαλέγεσθαι
In the Phaedrus, the expression τὰ γεγραμμένα φαῦλα ἀποδεῖξαι, „to demonstrate the inadequacy of its...
In his Symposium Plato appropriates two common literary elements, characterization and genre, for hi...
The Theaetetus is a dialogue full of puzzles, not the least of which is the character of Socrates hi...
Plato wrote his philosophy in the dialogue form. In his dialogues, a character called Socrates often...
It is almost a rule that the mature Socrates of Plato’s puzzle-raising dialogues never converses wit...
Plato’s dialogues offer us numerous portraits of Socrates. Some of these are dramatic depictions tha...
Plato’s dialogues offer us numerous portraits of Socrates. Some of these are dramatic depictions tha...
Plato’s dialogues offer us numerous portraits of Socrates. Some of these are dramatic depictions tha...
Plato's entire body of work has survived intact to this day, decisively influencing Western culture....
Plato's entire body of work has survived intact to this day, decisively influencing Western culture....
In the Republic, Plato has Socrates attack poetry’s use of mimēsis, often translated as ‘imitation’ ...
Plato's entire body of work has survived intact to this day, decisively influencing Western culture....
Plato's entire body of work has survived intact to this day, decisively influencing Western culture....
In the Republic, Plato has Socrates attack poetry’s use of mimēsis, often translated as ‘imitation’ ...
Although it has its origins earlier, philosophy as we know it in the West took its shape from the So...
In the Phaedrus, the expression τὰ γεγραμμένα φαῦλα ἀποδεῖξαι, „to demonstrate the inadequacy of its...
In his Symposium Plato appropriates two common literary elements, characterization and genre, for hi...
The Theaetetus is a dialogue full of puzzles, not the least of which is the character of Socrates hi...
Plato wrote his philosophy in the dialogue form. In his dialogues, a character called Socrates often...
It is almost a rule that the mature Socrates of Plato’s puzzle-raising dialogues never converses wit...
Plato’s dialogues offer us numerous portraits of Socrates. Some of these are dramatic depictions tha...
Plato’s dialogues offer us numerous portraits of Socrates. Some of these are dramatic depictions tha...
Plato’s dialogues offer us numerous portraits of Socrates. Some of these are dramatic depictions tha...
Plato's entire body of work has survived intact to this day, decisively influencing Western culture....
Plato's entire body of work has survived intact to this day, decisively influencing Western culture....
In the Republic, Plato has Socrates attack poetry’s use of mimēsis, often translated as ‘imitation’ ...
Plato's entire body of work has survived intact to this day, decisively influencing Western culture....
Plato's entire body of work has survived intact to this day, decisively influencing Western culture....
In the Republic, Plato has Socrates attack poetry’s use of mimēsis, often translated as ‘imitation’ ...
Although it has its origins earlier, philosophy as we know it in the West took its shape from the So...
In the Phaedrus, the expression τὰ γεγραμμένα φαῦλα ἀποδεῖξαι, „to demonstrate the inadequacy of its...
In his Symposium Plato appropriates two common literary elements, characterization and genre, for hi...
The Theaetetus is a dialogue full of puzzles, not the least of which is the character of Socrates hi...