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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
The resulting analyses may be found at:
https://theplatoparadigm.com
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18 SET 2026 · Socrates goads Menexenus into wanting to hear Socrates' speech, which Menexenus knows may not be by Aspasia. Why he is so interested in hearing the speech is still a matter of speculation. 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/
11 SET 2026 · Despite what Socrates has told Menexenus about the training orators have in learning how to put together a funeral speech appropriate to the occasion, he now claims that Aspasia beat into him verbaitm the funeral speech she would expect to be delivered by whoever the council finally chooses. 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 SET 2026 · Menexenus might have been expected to ask about the principles of composing a speech, yet he is still interested in a particular speech and the author of that speech. I continue my musings on Aspasia and her significance in this dialogue. 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/
28 AGO 2026 · 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/
21 AGO 2026 · 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/
14 AGO 2026 · 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/
7 AGO 2026 · 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/
31 LUG 2026 · 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/
24 LUG 2026 · 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/
17 LUG 2026 · 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/
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
The resulting analyses may be found at:
https://theplatoparadigm.com
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| Autore | Ivor Ludlam |
| Organizzazione | Ivor Ludlam |
| Categorie | Filosofia |
| Sito | - |
| platoparadigm@icloud.com |
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