Cross-Examining Socrates: A Defense of the Interlocutors in Plato's Early Dialogues (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521607599)

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.

Author: John Beversluis
ISBN-10: 0521607590
ISBN-13: 9780521607599
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/05/2004
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.39lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.96d