• Socrates: Platonic Political Ideal

    Author(s):
    Christopher Long (see profile)
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    Philosophy
    Subject(s):
    Philosophy
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Ancient Philosophy, Plato, Socrates
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6M916
    Abstract:
    This essay articulates the differences and suggests the similarities between the practices of Socratic political speaking and those of Platonic political writing. The essay delineates Socratic speaking and Platonic writing as both erotically oriented toward ideals capable of transforming the lives of individuals and their relationships with one another. Besides it shows that in the Protagoras the practices of Socratic political speaking are concerned less with Protagoras than with the individual young man, Hippocrates. In the Phaedo, this ideal of a Socrates is amplified in such a way that Platonic writing itself emerges as capable of doing with readers what Socratic speaking did with those he encountered. Socrates is the Platonic political ideal. The result is a picture of the transformative political power of Socratic speaking and Platonic writing both.
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    Journal:
    Ideas y Valores
    Volume:
    LXI
    Issue:
    149
    Page Range:
    11 - 49
    ISSN:
    0120-0062
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    7 years ago
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    Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
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