Artigo controverso, mas muito importante, para aqueles, que como esse missivista, é leitor do Gregory Vlastos.
The notion of a Socratic PHILOSOPHY, as distinct
from what is commonly known as Platonism, has its
origins in the work of Gregory Vlastos and continues today
through the scholars he has influenced. The Socratic movement
in Plato studies maintains that one can identify in certain
Platonic dialogues a philosophical method and a collection
of philosophical theses which may properly be attributed
to Socrates. The enterprise of Socratic philosophy rests
upon a series of subtle and, from my point of view, controversial
claims, some of which I aim in this short paper to
locate and challenge. This is not to say that I am opposed to
placing the character Socrates at the center of our understanding
of the Platonic texts; to the contrary, the alternate
understanding I propose here may strike some as going too
far in this direction. Rather, the target of my criticisms will
be the conception of Plato’s Socrates upon which current
Socratic philosophy rests. I begin with the position taken by
Vlastos and those who follow him.
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