SOCRATES’ DIALECTIC THERAPY ACCORDING TO PLATO’S APORETIC DIALOGUES

• Authors: De Bravo Delorme Cristián
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper’s aim is to claim that Socrates’ philosophy according to Plato’s dialogue should be taken as a dialectic therapy. Socrates’ dialectic therapy as a care of the self is not an isolated inspection of the individual conscience. As long as the Socratic therapy is dialectical, the possibility of the interlocutor’s self-transparency is possible through dialogical cooperation. This self-transparency is not the possessing of the good, but the very dialogue and mutual examination of the self. The therapeutic dialogue demands that the interlocutor be able to recognise himself in the dialectic of defining what he wants. Therefore, the dialogue enables the person to know his own good through the dialogue’s activity.

Keywords

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DIALOGUE; SELF-TRANSPARENCY; PLATO; SOCRATES

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 74
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 169 – 180

Contributors

author

De Bravo Delorme Cristián

• Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/filozofia.2019.74.3.1