Socrates in the Platonic dialogues

Osborne, Catherine (2006) Socrates in the Platonic dialogues. Philosophical Investigations, 29 (1). pp. 1-21. ISSN 1467-9205

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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:	28 Mar 2025 03:57
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/9158
DOI:	10.1111/j.1467-9205.2006.00272.x

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