The Ontology of Socratic Questioning in Plato's Early Dialogues Dr Guillaume Blanchy

The Ontology of Socratic Questioning in Plato's Early Dialogues Dr Guillaume BlanchyA provocative close reading revealing a radical, proto phenomenological Socrates. Winner of the 2013 Symposium Book Award, presented by the Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy Modern interpreters of Plato's Socrates have generally taken the dialogues to be aimed at working out objective truth. Attending closely to the texts of the early dialogues and the question of virtue in particular, Sean D. Kirkland suggests that this approach

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Provides 3x the questions of previous editions—more than 500 in total

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illustrate the range and diversity of responses to the Republic in antiquity