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Socratic Synousia : A Post-Platonic Myth?

Author(s) -

Harold Tarrant

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

journal of the history of philosophy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.587

H-Index - 24

eISSN - 1538-4586

pISSN - 0022-5053

DOI - 10.1353/hph.2005.0125

Subject(s) - socrates , socratic method , terminology , mythology , ideology , philosophy , epistemology , literature , period (music) , aesthetics , theology , art , law , linguistics , political science , politics

Tarrant examines whether the relationship between Socrates and his young followers could ever have been treated by Plato in the same fashion as it is treated in the Platonic Theages, where the terminology of synousia is repeatedly applied to it. In minimizing the part played by knowledge and maximizing the role of the divine and of eros, the work creates a "Socrates" who conforms to the educational ideology of the Academy of Polemo in the period 314-270 BC

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