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Contents 1 Comments 2 requested move 3 Wikified 4 Original research in "Subtextual Interpretations" section 5 Original research in "Conclusions" section 6 College Paper 7 Abuse

[edit] Comments

Please see Category_talk:Dialogues_of_Plato for further discussion. Thanks! --Girolamo Savonarola 11:22, 2005 May 16 (UTC)

It was requested that this article be renamed but there was no consensus for it to be moved. violet/riga (t) 14:32, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] requested move

Please debate this move on Category talk:Dialogues of Plato in its full context. Thank you. --Girolamo Savonarola 21:21, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikified

Wikified as part of the Wikification wikiproject! Minor arrangement and sectioning. JubalHarshaw 16:16, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Original research in "Subtextual Interpretations" section

This section appears to contain original research. If these are widely held opinions, please supply some citations to secondary literature; otherwise, I think the material should be removed. --Akhilleus (talk) 05:37, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Original research in "Conclusions" section

The "Conclusions" section advances an interpretation of the dialogue that isn't backed up by secondary sources. Either citations ought to be supplied, or the section should be removed. --Akhilleus (talk) 20:35, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

The lack of a real discussion of "narkao" is glaring. "stupification" is a watered-down version of that, I think. "struck by the torpedofish" is a bit more illustrative, and important to understanding the text. Cf. Annie Diller http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/eps/PES-Yearbook/1998/diller.html

The last paragraph of the 'conclusion' (except for the last couple of sentences) contains a broadly accurate summary of the final part of the Meno. This has become a bit mixed up with interpretations of the the significance of the dialogue. These interpretations do reflect standard readings, though of course citations are needed. I'll find some myself when I have time. Gregory Vlastos, I seem to recall, writes about Socrates' model of knowledge as geometrical for instance.--Ethicoaestheticist 23:52, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] College Paper

To me, this whole article reads like someone's paper for a college class. Frankly, I think the author of this missed the point Plato (through Socrates) was making. I'm not sure Socrates really believed that knowledge came from the Gods -- in fact, I think he was making a point. The man was killed for corrupting the youth, after all, and he definitely did not have any good things to say about the gods (it is very likely he didn't believe in them at all). I have a ton of nitpicks with the whole thing. One of them is the use of the term "True Beliefs" -- I believe the more accurate translation is "Right Opinion". Anyway, I wouldn't know where to start in cleaning this up. Ikilled007 18:13, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

I agree that this article is substantially original research. I've watchlisted it, and I might try to clean it up when I get time. --Ryan Delaney ^talk 17:31, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

While I agree that both the article contains original research and right opinion would be a better translation, the issue (somewhat unrelated to the article) about Socrates and the gods requires further inquiry. In the Apology, Socrates says that he indeed believes in at least one god, leading some to believe that he was in fact a monotheist. In Euthyphro he does desire to be rid of the stories of the gods, and the argument that he did not believe in all the Greek gods is certainly valid. But it would be a stretch to say he was an atheist. And also, he was sentenced to death for charges, one of them being corrupting the youth, but at least in Plato's mind this was an utter fabrication by angry Sophists and politicians and artisans to rid themselves of Plato and his "gadfly" behavior.Timjim7 02:41, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Since Ryan Delaney's point here about God, the relevant sentence from the Meno, complete with ironies and ambiguities, has replaced the more emphatic 'college paper' conjecture. The article would benefit from additional sources outside of the Meno itself to put some of the text into context.--Ethicoaestheticist 18:03, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Abuse

A user from IP adress 69.62.166.142 has repeatedly vandalized this web-page. Maybe someone with a little bit of authority can ban them from modifying it again.