PHL100Y1 Lecture Notes - Polemarchus, Cephalus, Socratic Dialogue
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Plato finds socrates in 428 b. c (around there) Plato was impressed about socrates seriousness in getting the answers for moral questions. Plato started writing down the exchange he had with people, which socrates did not. Plato does not give an accurate view of exactly what socrates says, because he was not constantly following socrates around. The work of plato which writes about the dialogue of socrates is spilt into three; early age, middle age and the late age. We consider early dialogues to be good documentation of how socrates went about doing things, such as in the republic, and the apology. As time goes by, plato started putting himself more into what he wrote. The republic is a middle age dialogue. The first book in the republic is a perfect example for a typical socratic dialogue. The reason is that it deals with the question of: what is justice? .
