其他摘要:It is a recurring pattern in Plato´s dialogues that the dialectician leads the discussion to a certain point where he identifies further, more fundamental problems, on which he claims to have his own view ( to emoi dokoun , vel sim.), which he does not communicate. Such passages are briefly analyzed from five dialogues ( Timaeus , Sophist , Politicus , Parmenides , Republic ). It is shown that this seemingly strange behaviour of the dialectician corresponds exactly to the way a philosopher should behave according to the Phaedrus . The recurring cases of reticence of the leading figure in dialogue have to be understood as Plato´s written reference to his own unwritten philosophy.
其他关键词:agrapha dogmata;unwritten views;dokounta;written and oral philosophy in Plato;deliberately left gaps in Plato;references to Plato´s oral philosophy