PSCI 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Socratic Dialogue, Irony, Polemarchus
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Book one reminds darby a lot of crito. Appears to be written deliberately to resemble crito. Crito does(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e sa(cid:373)e (cid:272)lear stru(cid:272)ture as apolog(cid:455), a(cid:374)d the perso(cid:374) o(cid:272)rates is speaki(cid:374)g to is crito (speaking to him in a way that"s appropriate to hi(cid:373)(cid:895) Book o(cid:374)e rese(cid:373)(cid:271)les crito i(cid:374) that it"s a (cid:373)ess(cid:455) dialogue. It"s the first, takes pla(cid:272)e i(cid:374) a(cid:374) u(cid:374)predi(cid:272)ta(cid:271)le (cid:449)a(cid:455) (cid:894)i(cid:374)for(cid:373)al setti(cid:374)g, (cid:374)o stru(cid:272)ture gi(cid:448)e(cid:374) to (cid:449)hat"s goi(cid:374)g o(cid:374)(cid:895) Co(cid:374)sider (cid:449)ho he"s talki(cid:374)g to a bunch of ppl at a party. Laying around on these couches, it was agreed upon that they would talk about a certain topic happens to be justice (preordained) Socrates trying talk to ea(cid:272)h (cid:272)hara(cid:272)ter so that (cid:449)hat he is sa(cid:455)i(cid:374)g applies to perso(cid:374) he"s speaki(cid:374)g to. Talking in a way to make himself understood to the person. Each of the definitions of justice and what each particular character has to say about it builds on the previous.