This book is a rereading of Plato's early dialogues from the point
of view of the characters with whom Socrates engages in debate.
Socrates' interlocutors are generally acknowledged to play
important dialectical and dramatic roles, but no previous book has
focused mainly on them. Existing studies are thoroughly dismissive
of the interlocutors and reduce them to the status of mere
mouthpieces for views which are hopelessly confused or demonstrably
false. This book takes interlocutors seriously and treats them as
genuine intellectual opponents whose views are often more
defensible than commentators have standardly thought. The author's
purpose is not to summarise their positions or the arguments of the
dialogues in which they appear, much less to produce a series of
biographical sketches, but to investigate the phenomenology of
philosophical disputation as it manifests itself in the early
dialogues.
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