Dramatic and literary devices in Plato's Gorgias: reception and conversion

• Grant number: 14/05224-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: November 01, 2014
• End date: March 31, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy - History of Philosophy
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Marco Antônio de Ávila Zingano
• Grantee: Luiz Eduardo Gonçalves Oliveira Freitas
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 09/16877-3 - Greek classical philosophy: Plato, Aristotle and their influence in Antiquity, AP.TEM

Abstract

The Gorgias, a dialogue situated in a transicional phase of Plato's work, builds its philosophical argumentation upon an intense scenic background, in which Socrates discusses matters that concern, among other things, the nature of rhetoric, pleasure and good life over three major acts. This project seeks to analyze the role of the dramatic and narrative elements in the Gorgias and how they are used by Plato in order to operate certain effects in the reading of the dialogue. The assumption that underpins our analysis is that the integration between the literary procedures and the philosophical arguments is critical in the reception and understanding of the Platonic philosophy. Starting from the Socratic criticism to rhetoric until a dispute over what is the best way to live a good life, the discusive strategy of the dialogue would provide the conditions for the condution of an ethical conversion on its reader to dialectics and the philosophical way of life. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

FREITAS, Luiz Eduardo Gonçalves Oliveira. Dramatic and Literary elements in Platos Gorgias. 2017. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.