Volume 63 (2008), 1

The main objective of the paper is the analysis of the views of Plato’s Socrates on poetry and rhetoric in Ion and Gorgias. Its first part aims at an examination of the subjects of poetry and rhetoric. In the second part the author gives the definition of Plato’s methodical criteria of recognizing of a discipline as τέχνη. In its the last part the paper tries… Read more

The paper’s aim is to explain the crucial aspects of the close relationship of an Athenian citizen of the classical era to his city-state. It gives a brief historical outline of the democratic institutions in Athens as established after Ephialtes’ reforms of the Athenian constitution in 462. Further, it exemplifies the political system in question on Socrates’… Read more

The main goal of the paper is to rethink several aspects of the so-called Plato’s Theory of Recollection and to contribute to the discussion of the differences between the historical Socrates and Socrates in Plato. The author’s argumentation draws upon his own interpretation of Plato’s Meno. As far as the recollection is concerned his conclusion is that we should… Read more

The paper offers an analysis of the forms of the Socratic paradoxes as well as their importance for the epistemological inquiries. In the author’s view there are various kinds of paradoxes. A special attention is paid to the Meno paradox from Plato’s Meno. In dealing with paradoxes there are three possible strategies: their critical overcoming, their… Read more

The paper deals with Antisthenes’ accounts of Homer as well as with the role the philosopher played in the thought on the turn of the 5th and 6th centuries before Kr. In its first part the author gives an outline of Antisthenes’ life and work. The second part shows the development of the critical approaches to Homer’s depicting Gods from Hecait to the sophists.… Read more