Socrates: Platonic political ideal

Ideas Y Valores 61 (149):11-38 (2012)
  Copy   BIBTEX

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. El ensayo articula diferencias y sugiere similitudes entre las prácticas del diálogo político de Sócrates y aquellas de la escritura política de Platón. Propone, además, que tanto el diálogo socrático como la escritura platónica se orientan eróticamente hacia ideales capaces de transformar las vidas de los individuos y sus relaciones. Demuestra que en el Protágoras las prácticas del diálogo socrático se ocupan menos de Protágoras que del joven Hipócrates. En el Fedón, este ideal de Sócrates se amplía de tal manera que la misma escritura platónica aparece como capaz de hacer con los lectores lo que el diálogo de Sócrates hacía con sus interlocutores. Sócrates es el ideal político platónico. El resultado es una visión del poder de transformación política tanto del diálogo socrático como de la escritura platónica

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 91,349

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

Socrates in the platonic dialogues.Catherine Osborne - 2005 - Philosophical Investigations 29 (1):1–21.
Four Educators in Plato's Theaetetus.Avi I. Mintz - 2011 - Journal of Philosophy of Education 45 (4):657-673.
Socrates: A Very Short Introduction.Christopher Taylor - 2000 - Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Socratic Courage in Plato's Socratic Dialogues.Shigeru Yonezawa - 2012 - British Journal for the History of Philosophy 20 (4):645-665.
The philosophy of Socrates: a collection of critical essays.Gregory Vlastos - 1980 - Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press.
The philosophy of Socrates.Gregory Vlastos - 1971 - Garden City, N.Y.,: Anchor Books.
Socrates Agonistes: The Case of the Cratylus Etymologies.Rachel Barney - 1998 - Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 16:63-98.
Plato and Socrates: From an Educator of Childhood to a Childlike Educator?Walter Omar Kohan - 2013 - Studies in Philosophy and Education 32 (3):313-325.
How Did Socrates Become Socrates?Jeffrey Benjamin White - 2008 - Proceedings of the Xxii World Congress of Philosophy 2:205-212.

Analytics

Added to PP
2013-04-19

Downloads
16 (#880,136)

6 months
3 (#1,023,809)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Christopher Long
Michigan State University

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

Γενουστησ.John Burnet - 1900 - The Classical Review 14 (08):393-394.
Plato: Protagoras.Nicholas Denyer (ed.) - 2008 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
Misology and Truth.R. Woolf - 2007 - Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 23:1-16.
Crisis of Community.Christopher P. Long - 2011 - Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 15 (2):361-377.

View all 13 references / Add more references