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Cross-examining Socrates : a defense of the interlocutors in Plato's early dialogues / John Beversluis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beversluis, John, 1934-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sophists (Greek philosophy).
- Plato. Dialogues.
- Plato.
- Socrates.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (427 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book is a re-reading of the early dialogues of Plato from the point of view of the people with whom Socrates engages in debate. It takes these interlocutors seriously and treats them as genuine intellectual opponents whose views are often more defensible than commentators have standardly thought.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- The Socratic interlocutor
- Elenchus and sincere assent
- Crito
- Ion
- Hippias
- Laches and Nicias
- Charmides and Critias
- Euthyphro
- Cephalus
- Polemarchus
- Thrasymachus
- Hippocrates
- Protagoras
- Gorgias
- Polus
- Callicles
- The last days of the Socratic interlocutor
- Bibliography
- Index of passages cited
- Index of names
- Index of modern authors
- General index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 384-397) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0-511-15237-X
- 0-511-01721-9
- OCLC:
- 49797183
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