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'A taste of the doctrines of each group of sages': Plato's midwifery at work in the Academy
Author/Creator
Tarrant, Harold
Institution
The University of Newcastle. Faculty of Education & Arts, School of Humanities and Social Science
Description
I here argue that the Philebus offers a window into the developing processes of debate within the Academy, and that many of these ideas have grown or developed in Academic discussions or in the works of individual members of the School, such as Speusippus (as was especially well argued by Schofield in respect of the dyschereis). Speusippus' interest in classification may also be important, but one should not forget that one significant fragment of Speusippus (F48: narrans tamquam placentia antiquis) seems to be giving his own take on the views of the ancients; so there is room for Plato's late-period 'Socrates' to be engaging not just with ancients and with contemporaries, but also with ancients as interpreted by contemporaries. In this context (as in F48) contemporary views of 'Pythagorean' endeavours would have been the most important.
Relation
Plato's Philebus: Selected Papers from the Eighth Symposium Platonicum p. 110-119
Relation
International Plato Studies 26
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http://www.academia-verlag.de/titel/69479.htm
Date
2010
Publisher
Academic Verlag
Keyword(s)
Philebus;  Plato;  Academy;  debate
Resource Type
book chapter
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/932727
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ISBN:9783896654793
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