Definitional Trouble in Plato?s Early Dialogues
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<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004722170_010" target="_blank" >10.1163/9789004722170_010</a>
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angličtina
Original language name
Definitional Trouble in Plato?s Early Dialogues
Original language description
The first attempt to answer Socrates' question in early dialogues is typically unsuccessful. This is mainly attributed to intellectual inadequacy and philosophical weakness on the side of Socrates? interlocutors, who cannot grasp the intention of the "ti esti" question. This paper aims to shed new light on these definitional attempts and set them in a broader cultural framework. With the example of selected dialogues, the proposed interpretation examines the relevance of the initial definitional attempts (i) within the mental scheme of their proponents and (ii) within the internal structure of the respective dialogues. First, it investigates the situational reasoning of the interlocutors embedded in oral communication practices present in a contemporary culture still influenced by the poetic tradition. In the second respect, it explores the function of these supposedly inappropriate definitions in the overall dialogical strategy. Based on this analysis, the chapter traces the complexities of the intellectual transformation initiated by the Socratic inquiry into the universals directed towards the conception of eidos/idea.
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60302 - Ethics (except ethics related to specific subfields)
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Plato and the Ideas: A Very Complicated Story
ISBN
978-90-04-72216-3
Number of pages of the result
17
Pages from-to
112-128
Number of pages of the book
248
Publisher name
Brill Academic Publishers
Place of publication
Leiden
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