The Wonder of Humanity in Plato’s Dialogues
One way of coming to terms with Platonic wonder is to examine what types of things in the dialogues elicit the pathos in the first place. My primary goal in this paper is to examine what evokes the wonder of Socrates and his interlocutors in a number of these works, and I will pay particularly close...
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| description | One way of coming to terms with Platonic wonder is to examine what types of things in the dialogues elicit the pathos in the first place. My primary goal in this paper is to examine what evokes the wonder of Socrates and his interlocutors in a number of these works, and I will pay particularly close attention to what Plato has to say about the wondrous nature of humanity itself. I will show that Plato depicts Socrates and other characters found in the dialogues, such as the young Theaetetus, as not only wonderers of the first rank, but also true wonders in themselves. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f9f1b42ad7f54e7e86fa9eb55b1b49652022-12-21T20:02:29ZengUniversity of Santo TomasKritike: An Online Journal of Philosophy1908-73302010-06-0141174198The Wonder of Humanity in Plato’s DialoguesDavid W. BollertOne way of coming to terms with Platonic wonder is to examine what types of things in the dialogues elicit the pathos in the first place. My primary goal in this paper is to examine what evokes the wonder of Socrates and his interlocutors in a number of these works, and I will pay particularly close attention to what Plato has to say about the wondrous nature of humanity itself. I will show that Plato depicts Socrates and other characters found in the dialogues, such as the young Theaetetus, as not only wonderers of the first rank, but also true wonders in themselves.http://www.kritike.org/journal/issue_7/bollert_june2010.pdfPlatoThe Dialogues of PlatoWonder |
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