@article{1398305,
      author = {Peterson, Sandra,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1398305},
      title = {Socrates and philosophy in the dialogues of Plato  [electronic resource] /},
      publisher = {Cambridge University Press,},
      abstract = {"In Plato's Apology, Socrates says he spent his life  examining and questioning people on how best to live, while  avowing that he himself knows nothing important. Elsewhere,  however, for example in Plato's Republic, Plato's Socrates  presents radical and grandiose theses. In this book Sandra  Peterson offers a new hypothesis which explains the puzzle  of Socrates' two contrasting manners. She argues that the  apparently confident doctrinal Socrates is in fact  conducting the first step of an examination: by eliciting  his interlocutors' reactions, his apparently doctrinal  lectures reveal what his interlocutors believe is the best  way to live. She tests her hypothesis by close reading of  passages in the Theaetetus, Republic and Phaedo. Her  provocative conclusion, that there is a single Socrates  whose conception and practice of philosophy remain the same  throughout the dialogues, will be of interest to a wide  range of readers in ancient philosophy and classics"--},
      recid = {1398305},
      pages = {1 online resource (xvi, 293 p.)},
      address = {Cambridge ;},
      year = {2011},
}