'A New Interpretation of Plato's Socratic Dialogues

• Autor: Kahn, Charles
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2000
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/5597
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/arete/article/view/5597
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto

A study of the remainsof the other Socratic authors, and of Eschines in particular, makes clear that this dialogue form was essentially a genre of fictional "conversations with Socrates". freely invented even when the interlocutors were historical. Hence it is a mistake to regard Plato's earlier dialogues as a report of the philosophy of the historical Socrates. The present interpretation aims toreplace the notion of a "Socratic period" in Plato's philosophical development with a more unified View of Plato's work as a whole. Hence the notion of "prolepsis" is utilized to suggest that most of the so-called "Socratic-dialogues"are Written (and intended to be read) from the point of View of the socalled "middle dialogues".