Socratic synousia: a post-Platonic myth?

Title: Socratic synousia: a post-Platonic myth?
Creator: Tarrant, Harold
Relation: Journal of the History of Philosophy Vol. 43, no. 2, p. 131-155
Relation: http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_the_history_of_philosophy
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2005
Description: This paper questions 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. It argues that in minimizing the part played by knowledge, and in 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 B.C. I indicate how this may assist our understanding of Arcesilaus' Socraticism, and suggest ways in which the work may have found its present place in the corpus.
Subject: Platonists; synousia; Theages; Plato; teacher-student relationships; philosphy
Identifier: uon:580
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/24662
Identifier: ISSN:1538-4586
Language: eng
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