Philosophy in Dialogue : Plato's Many Devices

ANNE-MARIE BOWERY rative dialogues demands further consideration. Here, I simply suggest that it symbolizes the philosophical po ...

KNOW THYSELF it creates a dramatic context in which Socrates the character becomes Socrates the narrator. The enacted beginning ...

ANNE-MARIE BOWERY to pleasure and the good (348c– 362a). Unlike the Euthydemus, the Pro- tagoras has no enacted conversation at ...

KNOW THYSELF enumerates each argumentative turn and describes the rhetorical ef- fect of their strategies. Socrates uses a varie ...

ANNE-MARIE BOWERY Socrates tells. Though Crito still does not know how to educate his sons, his behavior in the enacted frame he ...

KNOW THYSELF both a lover and a beloved” (204c). Socrates also includes many details about Lysis’ beauty and how he and the char ...

ANNE-MARIE BOWERY In each of these dialogues narrated by Socrates, an interlocutor blushes.^43 These blushes are physical indica ...

KNOW THYSELF Laughter is quite prevalent in the Euthydemus; Socrates notes the laughter of the speakers and the surrounding crow ...

ANNE-MARIE BOWERY not simply from his commit ment to fi nding truth through philosophical refutation. Consider the following pas ...

KNOW THYSELF cess of examination turned inward but one infused with a remarkable degree of passion, sensitivity to feeling, and ...

ANNE-MARIE BOWERY mind are often fairly mundane, it is still important for the audience to see that Socrates does begin his narr ...

KNOW THYSELF son why they jested and did not take it seriously. So I told them still more earnestly that we were really serious ...

ANNE-MARIE BOWERY The audience sees the necessity of reassessing knowledge and admit- ting aporia. They are crucial components o ...

KNOW THYSELF with a “strange suspicion,” helps Socrates realize that their argument about friendship is leading them astray (218 ...

ANNE-MARIE BOWERY concerned, Crito, when I had fallen into this diffi culty, I began to ex- claim at the top of my lungs and to ...

KNOW THYSELF about the “awful thought” leads to another emotional response where he exclaims, “Lysis and Menexenus, our wealth h ...

ANNE-MARIE BOWERY the penultimate draft, and the students in my 2004 and 2005 Plato seminars for their individual insights and c ...

KNOW THYSELF William Harris, Ancient Literacy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989); J. Waugh, “Neither Published nor P ...

ANNE-MARIE BOWERY I use the following translations: Lysis, trans. Stanley Lombardo, in Plato: Complete Works, ed. John M. Coope ...

KNOW THYSELF The narrative dimensions of the Republic may help ascertain whether or not there was an early proto-Republic and i ...