The development of plato’s theory of ideas and the ‘Socratic question’
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23248136 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Francesco Fronterotta (0000-0002-7026-4154, University of Salento, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Pages | 37-62 |
| Publication date | 2007-04-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy XXXII (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780199227310.003.0002 |
| OpenAlex | W2417449296 |
| Open Library | OL9530635M |
| ISBN | 9780199227310 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
W. J. Prior’s ‘Socrates Metaphysician’ undermines almost three decades of quasi unanimity in the English-speaking world on a certain interpretation of Plato’s theory of Ideas with regard to the relationship between Plato and Socrates, and to the suggestion that this relationship evolved in various specific stages, corresponding to as many chronologically distinct groups of Platonic dialogues. This reading, set out in its standard English-language version by Gregory Vlastos, actually excludes any reference to the metaphysical theory of Ideas from the early dialogues that were supposedly entirely devoted to the ethical search for virtue and its definition (as the historical Socrates would have exercised it), and confines the introduction of Ideas to the middle and late dialogues, the only ones to be truly Platonic in their content.
Art · Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy) · Linguistics · Literature · Metaphysics · Reading (process) · SOCRATES · Socratic method · Virtue · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Medieval and Classical Philosophy · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2024 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |