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The Socratic Logos
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Throughout the Meno, Euthyphro, and Symposium Socrates is questioning his interlocutor in an attempt to find the definition of some term. His criterion for a good definition or logos is for the definition to apply to all occasions of the subject and nothing else. Also, the logos must not mention ....
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....."(Meno, 76a) This concise explanation of shape is incorrect because two-dimensional drawings are not solids, but do have shape.
The incorrect examples of logos given in the two previous paragraphs clarify what logos is and show how difficult it is to satisfy the Socratic definition of logos. However, the account of love given by Diotima comes very close to a logos. Diotima defines love as "Wanting to possess the good forever,"(Symposium, 206a) which is difficult to dispute because the feelin.... |
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