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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.
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