Contatti
Info
What Plato Dramatized
Episodi & Post
Episodi
Post
16 MAG 2025 · What the dialogue is not about.
9 MAG 2025 · In this final section of the dialogue, Socrates provides Io with two options. Either Io has techne and refuses to divulge his sophia to Socrates, and is therefore doing wrong, or he has no techne but is divinely inspired. Should he choose to be considered unjust or divine?
2 MAG 2025 · Socratae, beginning his concluding remarks, presents the first of his two options for Io. Accordinng to this first option, Io is doing Socrates wrong by purposely shapeshifting in order to avoid revealing how clever he is with regard to the sophia of Homer.
25 APR 2025 · Socrates finishes off the argument refuting Io's claim that he is a general, let alone a good general, incidentally revealing that the dramatic date of the dialogue is around 413 BC, after the disastrous Athenian campaign against Syracuse.
18 APR 2025 · Socrates begins dismantling Io's claim that he has a techne common to rhapsodes and generals. Io accepts that he is the best rhapsode and the best general, but he cannot accept that any general is also a rhapsode, for the very good reason, I suggest, that a general is not a rhapsode. This is not a refutation based on logic, but an argument from observation.
11 APR 2025 · Having essentially agreed (in not so many words) that each techne has exclusive subject matter, it is perhaps surprising that Io remains steadfast over his claim that the rhapsode and the strategos share the same techne.
4 APR 2025 · Io had been forced to narrow the rhapsode's expertise down to knowing what sort of things it would be fitting for different types of people to say, ,such as a man, a woman, a slave or a ruler, rather than any type of craftsman. However, Socrates has derailed this approach to rhapsody by giving each of these types of people various types of techne: the ruler he has turned into a ruler of a ship at sea (a helmsman), and a ruler of a sick person (a physician); even the slave becomes a ruler of oxen (an oxherd), a woman becomes a ruler of wool (a spinner), and in all these, Io agrees that the craftsman would know better than a rhapsode what sort of things it is fitting for these types of people to say. Socrates now turns to the man, and Io thinks that at least here he knows what sort of things it is fitting for a man to say. It turns out that he doesn't, again according to the flawed assumption that any subject matter is exclusive to only one techne or another.
28 MAR 2025 · Io misspoke when he formulated the rhapsode's techne as the ability to know the sort of things any type of person should say. It is easy for Socrates to make Io admit that craftsmen of all other crafts will say things connected to their crafts more finely than a rhapsode could - this after all is what they have been assuming for a long time now.
21 MAR 2025 · What began as a question over who can judge better when Homer is speaking well has recently become a question of which techne is better suited to judge the subject matter of the poem. In every case, the professional associated with the subject matter being discussed is preferred to the rhapsode, since Io accepts the sophistic principle of exclusivity (if one techne knows X, then the rhapsodic techne doesn't know X). This pushes Io finally to consider what the rhapsodic techne might be without reference to the subject matter of the poem.,
14 MAR 2025 · Socrates quotes another Homeric example of the mantike techne (the craft of the seer). Unlike the first example, a prophecy, the.second example is an omen.
What Plato Dramatized
Informazioni
| Autore | Ivor Ludlam |
| Organizzazione | Ivor Ludlam |
| Categorie | Filosofia |
| Sito | - |
| platoparadigm@icloud.com |
Copyright 2025 - Spreaker Inc. an iHeartMedia Company
