Plato’s Phaedo and “the Art of Glaucus”: Transcending the Distortions of Developmentalism
Abstract: In a 1985 article, Diskin Clay offered a modern solution to an ancient problem: instead of choosing between the scholiast’s two different explanations of “the art of Glaucus,” he offered a more textual explanation based on Socrates’ image of the distorted appearance of the embodied soul inRepublicX. This paper’s thesis is that we should reconsider the way we read Socrates’ last discourse by privileging its dramatic and didactic aspects in a manner that allows us to give Clay’s insights the weight they deserve. This is preferable to regardingPhaedoas an outgrown stage of Plato’s development rather than the dramatic culmination of the dialogues as a whole, and the hegemonic hermeneutic based on chronological order of composition has made this great dialogue’s original form as unrecognizable as the ocean has made Glaucus.
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Format: | Digital revista |
Language: | English |
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Universidade de Brasília / Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra
2021
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Online Access: | http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-249X2021000100316 |
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