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Osborne, Catherine 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4860-0323
(2006)
Socrates in the Platonic dialogues.
Philosophical Investigations, 29 (1).
pp. 1-21.
ISSN 1467-9205
Abstract
If Socrates is portrayed holding one view in one of Plato's dialogues and a different view in another, should we be puzzled? If (as I suggest) Plato's Socrates is neither the historical Socrates, nor a device for delivering Platonic doctrine, but a tool for the dialectical investigation of a philosophical problem, then we should expect a new Socrates, with relevant commitments, to be devised for each setting. Such a dialectical device – the tailor-made Socrates – fits with what we know of other contributions to the genre of the Sokratikos Logos, to which Plato was neither the first nor the only contributor.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Philosophy (former - to 2014) |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Wittgenstein Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Philosophy |
| Depositing User: | EPrints Services |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Oct 2010 13:56 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Aug 2023 15:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/9158 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1467-9205.2006.00272.x |
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