PHILOS 3XX3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Thrasymachus
26 Oct 2017
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Thrasyllus gathered plato"s works, original collection, copied and passed on: uncertain as to order, thrasyllus grouped them according to theme, socrates changes from writing/professing, changes to asking questions of others. One of the reasons dialogue may have been chosen is because it is closest to socrates method of question and answer (late twenties at the time of socrates" death) Cautious about taking all socrates" statements as plato"s mouthpiece, others show his opinions. In uences: pre-socratics: parmenides- in uenced his theories on the world of eternal forms, hericlides, sophists: protagoras, gorgeos, truth is relative, rhetoric, persuasion.
