- Title
- Tetralogies IV and VII: key to the Thrasyllan reading-order
- Creator
- Tarrant, Harold
- Relation
- ARC.DP0986334 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP0986334
- Relation
- Lire les dialogues mais lequels et dans quel ordre? Definitions du corpus et interpretations de Platon p. 1-24
- Relation
- http://www.r-ol.de/academia/titel/69588.htm
- Publisher
- Academia Verlag
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- There can be little doubt that even in Plato's lifetime educated people asked which of his dialogues should be given preference. Some of them must have come to public attention quickly, while others had relevance only for a small circle of intellectuals. Republic VII shows that Plato was conscious of the need to structure a curriculum in an orderly fashion, and it is understandable that some of his dialogues fall naturally into sequences : sequences, we presume, that were not usually planned when their earliest members began to be written. Young philosophers needed guidance regarding the order in which they should approach their studies, and those of more advanced years probably needed to know which writings were crucial, and which could more easily be ignored. Some writings may have been regarded as dispensable, either because they had been superseded, or because they were not properly regarded as representing Plato. Perhaps some could be disregarded because they saw Socrates through a Megarian rather than a Platonic lens, while others had been written by later authors in a style that imitated Plato's own.
- Subject
- Plato; Republic VII; dialoues
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1345818
- Identifier
- uon:29725
- Identifier
- ISBN:9783896655882
- Language
- eng
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