Plato's Hippias Minor: Analysis, Text, Translation, and Commentary
Ravi Sharma, "Plato's Hippias Minor: Analysis, Text, Translation, and Commentary"
English | ISBN: 0192895230 | 2025 | 288 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 0192895230 | 2025 | 288 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Plato's Hippias Minor has long been considered puzzling in its philosophical purpose, its characterization of Socrates, and its overall design. Departing from a tradition of scholarship that largely relegates the dialogue to the fringes of the Platonic corpus, this volume offers a fresh translation into English and a comprehensive re-evaluation of the dialogue's philosophical content and literary construction. Ravi Sharma argues that Hippias Minor contributes significantly to our understanding of Plato's conception of intentional action and that the dialogue's ideas form the basis for reflections in moral psychology that may be found elsewhere in the Platonic corpus. The portrait of Socrates in the dialogue is one of Plato's more subtle explorations of his epistemic complexity: Socrates is shown to be wedded to the arguments he makes despite understanding that they entail significant difficulties for the development of a broader theory of intentional action. The overall literary design of
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