THE “OPEN” SOCRATIC DIALOGUE AND THE MAGIC OF ITS HEYDAY

This paper will offer an overview of, and some conjectures upon, the probable collective force of the transformations of the philosophical scene that took place in Athens soon after Socrates' trial and death. It will be argued that the new way of doing philosophy, devised by the Socratics, was...

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Autor: Rossetti, Livio
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:Brasil
Recursos:Faculdade de São Bento (FSB)
Repositorio:Hypnos
Idioma:inglés
portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.hypnos.org.br:article/408
Acesso em linha:https://hypnos.org.br/index.php/hypnos/article/view/408
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Socrates
Athenas
Plato
Dialogue
Sócrates
Atenas
Platão
diálogo.
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Resumo:This paper will offer an overview of, and some conjectures upon, the probable collective force of the transformations of the philosophical scene that took place in Athens soon after Socrates' trial and death. It will be argued that the new way of doing philosophy, devised by the Socratics, was in fact antipodal to the traditional offerings of doctrines and theories openly endorsed by existing authors, and is therefore to be carefully distinguished from the dialogues where new bodies of doctrine happen to be openly professed. Because of the invention of the "open" Socratic dialogue, the philosophical community of Athens very likely underwent a first-order "velvet revolution", especially during the crucial years when Plato's identity as a writer and thinker was being set in place.