Talk:Socratic dialogue

message: I think there are some pretty good information and examples of Socratic dialogues in the Book History of Western Philosophy (Russell). Especially in those Chapters about Socrates and Plato.  
--Arash Eb (talk) 00:11, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  A Good Reference 

message: Is there any guideline on which examples are linked? Socratic dialogues such as Charmides that are listed under Plato's dialogues aren't linked here.
67.176.177.166 20:57, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Examples of Socratic Dialogues 

message: More familiar as "Socratic dialogue" which might be a less pretentious title in the English-language Wikipedia. Wetman 07:30, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree: this looks ridiculous. --Jpbrenna 19:46, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Previous Discussion 

message: *Support  Socratic dialogue is almost never referred to as Sokratikoi logoi in English (in fact, I have never seen this usage before).  In Modern Greek, it is referred to in the singular; a Greek Google produces zero hits for the plural.  Googling in English shows a large tilt toward the singular as well.  --Jpbrenna 20:39, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Voting 

message: Should modern examples, like the one linked from the article on Bartemius Crouch, be mentioned? Or is that something different altogether? 129.7.254.33 00:16, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Modern dialogues 

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thread_title:  WikiProject class rating

message: The article introduction and overall tenor says that a Socratic dialogue is a particular genre involving Socrates or someone like him leading a philosophic discussion.  Socratic dialogue is also a term used by Platonic scholars who see a movement away from Socrates by Plato:  in this view, Plato's "early" dialogue are Socratic, but not the later ones.  This definition is also included within the article.  In the first definition, the Laws is a Socratic dialogue; in the second, it is not.  The article should probably be clearer about this double use, instead of treating both as part of the same phenomenon.  Thoughts? RJC Talk Contribs 17:31, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ambiguity regarding subject of article 

message: The entry currently claims that Alexamenus wrote Socratic dialogues.  This is probably false. He wrote dialogues, and was an early writer of dialogues. But his dialogues were almost certainly not Socratic dialogues
We only know of Alexamenus from his having been mentioned by Aristotle in a lost work "Concerning Poets" (fr. 72). This treatise is then referred to in two extant sources, sc. Diogenes Laertius (3.48) and Athenaeus (11.112 and Ep. 2,2 69).
The quote from DL says that he wrote dialogues, but not Socratic dialogues. The quote from Athenaeus says that he wrote "the first of the Socratic dialogues"   (τοὺς πρώτους... τῶν Σωκρατικῶν διαλόγων); but editors of Aristotle have always rejected that reading of the text in favor of printing that he wrote dialogues "earlier than (or before) the Socratic dialogues" (τοὺς προτέρους (vel πρότερον)... τῶν Σωκρατικῶν διαλόγων).  
One strong reason to emend Athenaeus and reject Alexamenus from the list of authors of Socratic dialogues is the fact that he is never mentioned among the students of Socrates.  All of the other authors of Socratic dialogues (in the original, not the extended, sense) are listed among his students, and frequently mentioned in Socratic dialogues written by others. 
So the balance of evidence suggests that Alexamenus was not a student of Socrates and did not write Socratic dialogues, and this is the consensus among Aristotle scholars as well as scholars on Socratic dialogues and the students of Socrates (e.g. Giannantoni).
Tad Brennan128.84.127.214 (talk) 18:45, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alexamenus 

message: It seems that the list could use Thomas More's Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation and his Dialogue Concerning Heresies. The latter is considered by C.S. Lewis to be the best dialogue in English.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:18D:8900:E618:7578:BE08:D2CB:60EC (talk) 11:37, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding Thomas More's Dialogues to the Medieval / Early Modern Section