Cross-examining Socrates : a defense of the interlocutors in Plato's early dialogues /

Cross-examining Socrates : a defense of the interlocutors in Plato's early dialogues /

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Author / Creator:	Beversluis, John, 1934-
Imprint:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 416 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Plato. -- Dialogues. Socrates. Socrates. Dialogues (Plato) Sophists (Greek philosophy) Sophists (Greek philosophy) Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11117305

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ISBN:	0511017219 9780511017216 9780521550581 0521550580 051115237X 9780511152375
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 384-397) and indexes. Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Beversluis, John, 1934- Cross-examining Socrates. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000 0521550580

Table of Contents:

Introduction
1. The Socratic interlocutor
2. Elenchus and sincere assent
3. Crito
4. Ion
5. Hippias
6. Laches and Nicias
7. Charmides and Critias
8. Euthyphro
9. Cephalus
10. Polemarchus
11. Thrasymachus
12. Hippocrates
13. Protagoras
14. Gorgias
15. Polus
16. Callicles
17. The last days of the Socratic interlocutor