'A taste of the doctrines of each group of sages': Plato's midwifery at work in the Academy

Title: 'A taste of the doctrines of each group of sages': Plato's midwifery at work in the Academy
Creator: Tarrant, Harold
Relation: Plato's Philebus: Selected Papers from the Eighth Symposium Platonicum p. 110-119
Relation: International Plato Studies 26
Relation: http://www.academia-verlag.de/titel/69479.htm
Publisher: Academic Verlag
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2010
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.
Subject: Philebus; Plato; Academy; debate
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/932727
Identifier: uon:11441
Identifier: ISBN:9783896654793
Language: eng

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