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Soares, Lucas
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dc.date.available
2023-12-12T18:00:25Z
dc.date.issued
2023-03
dc.identifier.citation
Soares, Lucas; An idiot concerned with the truth: Socrates and idiocy; Peeters Publishers Leuven; Tijdschrift voor Filosofie; 84; 4; 3-2023; 549-571
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0040-750X
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http://hdl.handle.net/11336/220048
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When reading the Platonic dialogues, there is a moment when one feels that the character of Socrates speaks and acts like an idiot with his interlocutors. A moment when, faced with his perplexities, clumsiness, and ridiculousness, one wonders: why does Socrates so frequently show difficulties of comprehension in his questioning? Why does he sometimes say absurd things and behave extravagantly and childishly? Why does he give examples and comparisons where one cannot be entirely sure what he is driving at? Why does he tend to expose himself to ridicule and be the object of mocking? Is he an idiot, or merely acting like one? This article examines several passages in Plato’s text to explore how Socrates’s behaviour is related to stupidity. It argues that speaking and behaving like an idiot are some of the many strategies that Socrates employs to expose the folly of the empty conceit of wisdom of his interlocutors. To support this hypothesis, I examine the image of Socrates that Plato presents to us through the gaze of some of his main interlocutors, such as Hippias, Callicles, Alcibiades, and Thrasymachus, characters who present themselves as mirrors to reveal Socrates’s relationship with idiocy.
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application/pdf
dc.language.iso
eng
dc.publisher
Peeters Publishers Leuven
dc.rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/
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SOCRATES
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IDIOTEZ
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PLATÓN
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DIÁLOGOS
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Filosofía, Historia y Filosofía de la Ciencia y la Tecnología
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Filosofía, Ética y Religión
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HUMANIDADES
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dc.title
An idiot concerned with the truth: Socrates and idiocy
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo
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info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
dc.date.updated
2023-12-07T17:53:42Z
dc.identifier.eissn
2031-8952
dc.journal.volume
84
dc.journal.number
4
dc.journal.pagination
549-571
dc.journal.pais
Bélgica
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Lovaina
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Fil: Soares, Lucas. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
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Tijdschrift voor Filosofie
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info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/https://poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?url=article&id=3291528
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info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/http://dx.doi.org/10.2143/TVF.84.4.3291528
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