Socrates' "Flight into the Logoi": a non-standard interpretation of the founding document of Plato's dialectic

In Melina G. Mouzala, Ancient Greek Dialectic and Its Reception. De Gruyter (2023)
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The paper proposes (1.) a non-standard interpretation of the proverbial expression “deuteros plous” by giving a fresh look to Phaedo, 99c9-d1. Then (2.) it proceeds to the philosophical problem raised in this passage according to this interpretation, that is, the problem of the “hypothesis” or the “unproved principle”. It indicates finally (3.) the kernel of truth contained in the standard Interpretation and it concludes with some remarks on the “weakness of the logoi”.

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reprint Ferber, Rafael (2023) "Socrates' "Flight into the Logoi": a non-standard interpretation of the founding document of Plato's dialectic". In , , pp. : (2023)

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Rafael Ferber
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Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher.Gregory Vlastos - 1991 - Ithaca, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press.
Plato's theory of ideas.William David Ross - 1951 - Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.
Plato's Phaedo.David Bostock - 1986 - New York: Oxford University Press.

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