In Hellenistic times the Stoics regarded emphasis on the paramount importance of virtue, understood as a certain kind of knowledge, as the true heritage of Socrates, and it became foundational for their school. Yet there are other readings according to which the primary purpose is to recommend certain views. One way of reading the early dialogues is as having the primarily negative purpose of showing that authority figures in society do not have the understanding needed for a good human life (the reading of the Skeptics in the Hellenistic Age).
The discussion often includes as a core component a search for the real definition of a key term. In them, Socrates typically engages a prominent contemporary about some facet of human excellence (virtue) that he is presumed to understand, but by the end of the conversation the participants are reduced to aporia. Indeed, they were probably intended by Plato to draw such readers into the subject. They are short and entertaining and fairly accessible, even to readers with no background in philosophy. The early dialogues serve well as an introduction to the corpus. The works in this group (to be discussed in alphabetical order below) represent Plato’s reception of the legacy of the historical Socrates many feature his characteristic activity, elenchos, or testing of putative experts. SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!.Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.
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