Isocrates and the Anonymous Critic of Plato’s Euthydemus
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This article proposes an interpretation of Plato’s Euthydemus based on the scene that takes place in dialogue’s epilogue, in which a mysterious character criticises Socrates and the eristic brothers for the conversation that has just taken place. I will defend that this anonymous figure hides Isocrates, who in Against the Sophists and Encomium of Helen had attacked all the disciples of Socrates for dedicating to a type of activity aimed, in his opinion, at pure contention and without any usefulness for civic life. I will propose that Euthydemus constitutes a response to this criticism because the two protrectic models of the dialogue allow Plato to distinguish his own way of using the Dialectics from that of others of his fellow disciples, mainly the Megarians, as well as to lay the foundations of his philosophical-political project grounded in the concept of knowledge.
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