1. Self Exposure:Horace And Socrates
His speech is, again, not so much a speech as a dialog between himself and Diotima, a woman he claims taught him the art of love. Socrates relates the dialog because it teaches the meaning of love as he understands it, which still fits in with the theme of their gathering. ...
The dialogue between Socrates and Euthyphro takes place on the Porch of the King of Archon. Both Socrates and Euthyphro are there for court business. Socrates has been indicted for the serious crime of corrupting the youth and has been accused of being impious. Euthyphro is there to bring charges ag...
Griswold sums up his view on the reason Plato used irony in his writings this way, "we could hold that the function of irony in the dialogues is to encourage us to become philosophical by rightly appropriating for ourselves the dialogic search for knowledge" (Griswold, 2002). ...