The Plato Paradigm

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Here I read through Platonic dialogues, translating and commenting on the Greek text as I go. The resulting analyses may be found at: https://theplatoparadigm.com

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    0265 Menexenus 235d

    It's not too hard to appear to be a good speaker when you are praising your own people. If you've been taught, as Socrates has been, by such an outstanding teacher of rhetoric as the escort-girl Aspasia, you will be unstoppable. Here I read through Platonic dialogues, translating and commenting on the Greek text as I go. The resulting analyses may be found at: https://theplatoparadigm.com

  2. 21 aug.

    0264 Menexenus 235b

    Socrates completes his rhetorical account of the rhetorical aim of public eulogy. Menexenus appears to brush it off, and expresses a naive concern that the person to be chosen to deliver the eulogy won't have time to prepare. Socrates sets about explaining to him the facts of life. Here I read through Platonic dialogues, translating and commenting on the Greek text as I go. The resulting analyses may be found at: https://theplatoparadigm.com

  3. 14 aug.

    0263 Menexenus 234c

    In an apparent reaction to the importance Menexenus attaches to the choice of eulogist, Socrates exclaims how in many places dying in war is a fine thing, and proceeds to deliver a lengthy sentence supposedly explaining why this is so. The reasons he give present the eulogy as a well-rehearsed spell cast over the listeners to divorce them from reality and make them feel that the situation is much better than it is, and that the soldiers died for a good cause. Here I read through Platonic dialogues, translating and commenting on the Greek text as I go. The resulting analyses may be found at: https://theplatoparadigm.com

  4. 7 aug.

    0262 Menexenus 234b

    Menexenus has just come from the bouleuterion (the council house) in the agora, where he has learned that the eulogy over the dead will be delivered by one of two people. Of interest to us is the motive of Menexenus is going to the bouleuterion. Is it political ambition, as Socrates insinuates, or something else? Here I read through Platonic dialogues, translating and commenting on the Greek text as I go. The resulting analyses may be found at: https://theplatoparadigm.com

  5. 31 juli

    0261 Menexenus 234a

    I've chosen to read Menexenus next, since we've just finished Lysis, in which Menexenus was one of the boys, while here he is a little older. It is unclear how a dialogue which is mostly a sample of a funeral oration delivered by Socrates to Menexenus will support my contention that Platonic dialogues are dramatizations of one or other idea, and it will be particularly interesting if this turns out to be the first dialogue to disprove my hypothesis. Here I read through Platonic dialogues, translating and commenting on the Greek text as I go. The resulting analyses may be found at: https://theplatoparadigm.com

  6. 24 juli

    0260 Lysis Conclusions 5 of 5

    If the dialogue is actually a demonstration of aspects of good and apparent good, then what is the function of friendship (philia) in it? I suggest that philia in Lysis serves the same function as justice in Politeia (Republic), as a handy criterion by which to judge the various types of goodness and apparent goodness. Here I read through Platonic dialogues, translating and commenting on the Greek text as I go. The resulting analyses may be found at: https://theplatoparadigm.com

  7. 17 juli

    0259 Lysis Conclusions 4 of 5

    The verbiage in the dialogue hardly represents the best of philosophical argument, but it is an excellent demonstration of the clash between various character types representing aspects of good or apparent good. The attempt is commendable, but not so clear-cut and fully elaborated as it is in Politeia (Republic), which for this and other reasons must be considered to be a later work. Here I read through Platonic dialogues, translating and commenting on the Greek text as I go. The resulting analyses may be found at: https://theplatoparadigm.com

  8. 10 juli

    0258 Lysis Conclusions 3of 5

    The first conversation supposedly on philia which Socrates narrates is with Lysis alone. We actually learn more about Lysis and his alternative approach to being better than others (and therefore apparently good), while Menexenus seems to prefer verbal debate as his means of appearing good. Here I read through Platonic dialogues, translating and commenting on the Greek text as I go. The resulting analyses may be found at: https://theplatoparadigm.com

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Here I read through Platonic dialogues, translating and commenting on the Greek text as I go. The resulting analyses may be found at: https://theplatoparadigm.com

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    Ivor Ludlam
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