Talk:Socratic dialogue

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Contents 1 Examples of Socratic Dialogues 2 Previous Discussion 3 Voting 4 Sokratikoi logoi 5 Modern dialogues 6 Platonic Dialogues 7 WikiProject class rating

[edit] Examples of Socratic Dialogues

Is there any guideline on which examples are linked? Socratic dialogues such as Charmides that are listed under Plato's dialogues aren't linked here. 67.176.177.166 20:57, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Previous Discussion

More familiar as "Socratic dialogue" which might be a less pretentious title in the English-language Wikipedia. Wetman 07:30, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I agree: this looks ridiculous. --Jpbrenna 19:46, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Voting

• Support Socratic dialogue is almost never referred to as Sokratikoi logoi in English (in fact, I have never seen this usage before). In Modern Greek, it is referred to in the singular; a Greek Google produces zero hits for the plural. Googling in English shows a large tilt toward the singular as well. --Jpbrenna 20:39, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
• Support The place for the Greek is in parentheses after the bolded name (Sokratikoi logoi). If there are shades of meaning in the original that are not well rendered in the familiar English of the title, that's always worth exploring. Many Wikipedia articles have a similar contour. --Wetman 22:02, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
• Support. Gene Nygaard 09:20, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Move is done! Talrias (t | e | c) 10:53, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sokratikoi logoi

In antiquity, the genre is always refered to in the plural (Sokratikoi logoi Socratic conversations/speeches). Aristotle's Poetics would be the locus classicus.

In English language classical and philosophical scholarship, Sokratikoi logoi is overtaking Socratic dialogue in technical genre discussions. I think it's to distinguish the ancient genre from looser applications of the term.

Similarly, "valediction" has been entirely replaced by "propemptikon" in the discussion of good-bye poems.

Whether Modern or Ancient Greek usage should be given would be a matter of dispute for Modern Greeks, but I don't think it would be for anyone else.

[edit] Modern dialogues

Should modern examples, like the one linked from the article on Bartemius Crouch, be mentioned? Or is that something different altogether? 129.7.254.33 00:16, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Platonic Dialogues

Are Platonic and Socratic dialogues the same? If they are, there ought to be a redirect from Platonic dialogue to here, and if not then there should be some sort of distinction made within this article. 84.13.228.15 01:21, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

I think the article more or less covers the distinction between the two - Platonic dialogues are Socratic dialogues, but Socratic dialogues are not always Platonic dialogues. If you think it should be made clearer in the article, you could change it. Anarchia 04:01, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

The article doesn't even mention Platonic dialogues much less cover a distinction between the two. And I would change it if I knew the answer - but I don't, and that's the reason I came to this article in the first place. The page has failed in exactly what you claim it doesn't. 89.243.21.74 16:43, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Sorry - it is easier to see things if you know what you are looking for.

"Socratic dialogue (Greek Σωκρατικός λόγος or Σωκρατικός διάλογος) is a genre of prose literary works developed in Greece at the turn of the fourth century BCE, preserved today in the dialogues of Plato and the Socratic works of Xenophon....Plato and Xenophon, Antisthenes, Aeschines of Sphettos, Phaedo, Eucleides of Megara, Theocritus, Tissaphernes and Aristotle all wrote Socratic dialogues"

This says that there are Socratic dialogues written by Plato and Xenophon, among others.

"Generally, the works of Plato's early years are all considered to be Socratic dialogues, but many of the later ones are often included as well."

This says, by implication, that not all of Plato's works are Soctraic dialogues.

Hope this helps. I am not a classical scholar, and I have more things on my to do list than I can cope with. BUt, I will add tidying this to the Philosophy project to do list.Anarchia 22:17, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject class rating

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