The Guardians on Trial (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

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Based on a conception of Reading Order introduced and developed in his Republic (Lexington; 2012) and RepublicTimaeus Theaetetus (Lexington; 2016), William H. F. Altman now completes his study of Plato's so-called "late dialogues" by showing that they include those that depict the trial and death of Socrates. According to Altman, it is not Order of Composition but Reading Order that makes , , , and "late dialogues," and he shows why Plato's decision to interpolate the notoriously "late" and between and deserves more respect from interpreters. Altman explains this interpolation-and another, that places between and -as part of an ongoing test Plato has created for his readers that puts "the Guardians on Trial." If we don't recognize that Socrates himself is the missing that the Eleatic Stranger never actually describes-and also the antithesis of the Athenian Stranger, who leaves Athens in order to create laws for Crete-we pronounce ourselves too sophisticated to be Plato's Guardians, and unworthy of the Socratic inheritance.