Plato's Hippias Minor - The Play of Ambiguity (Hardcover)

Philosophers accuse Socrates of advancing unfair if not fallacious arguments in Plato's Hippias Minor more than most other dialogues. In Hippias Minor, Socrates appears to defend the trickster Odysseus, and in the course of doing so he argues for outrageous claims: the honest person and the liar are no different, and the good person is one who does wrong voluntarily. In Plato's Hippias Minor: The Play of Ambiguity, Zenon Culverhouse argues that Socrates' questionable behavior is no coincidence in a dialogue about deception and that the questions for Socrates are what counts as deception and how it reflects one's excellence. More broadly, the dialogue is about the relationship between the speaker and what is said, between agent and action. Thus, the dialogue marks an important stage in Socrates' thinking about virtue and voluntary action. As for Plato's portrait of Socrates, Culverhouse argues that the dialogue further defines the sometimes thin line between Socrates and his contemporaries, the sophists. Rather than exploiting ambiguity in key terms of the argument to trip up his opponent, Socrates playfully explores these ambiguities to illuminate Hippias' (and perhaps our own) serious commitments about human excellence.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2021
Authors:	Zenon Culverhouse
Dimensions:	231 x 162 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	142
ISBN-13:	978-1-79361-121-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > General
LSN:	1-79361-121-1
Barcode:	9781793611215

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