- Title
- The Socratic Dubia
- Creator
- Tarrant, Harold
- Relation
- Socrates and the Socratic Dialogue p. 386-411
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004341227_020
- Publisher
- Brill
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2018
- Description
- It is hard to be sure about the authenticity of several of the dialogues within the Platonic corpus. Most of these employ Socrates as principal speaker, and seem genuinely interested in aspects of the historical or at least the Platonic “Socrates” and his methods, and my title refers to these collectively. I am neither claiming that they offer special insights into the historical Socrates, nor that they should always be treated as a group. Rather I would claim that there is some merit in examining them together from time to time, revealing their similarities, and discussing whether some or all might have found their way into the corpus by a common path. Any such examination would naturally include discussion of the portrait of Socrates that they paint, both collectively and individually. If these works were designed by Plato or were given his approval then they have received the imprimatur of a follower of Socrates. If they have no close connection with Plato, nor with any other follower of Socrates, then they may rather be important as indications of what Socrates had come to mean for those who had not known Socrates themselves.
- Subject
- Socrates; Plato; Platonic corpus; authenticity
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1442688
- Identifier
- uon:41764
- Identifier
- ISBN:9789004321915
- Language
- eng
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