Platão, dramaturgo e dramatis personae Hípias, defensor da poesia e da "cultura geral" contra as falácias de Sócrates

• Autor(a) principal: Colen, José
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34632/gaudiumsciendi.2013.2596

HippiasMinor is a Platonic dialogue, whose authenticity was often questioned because Socrates appears in it as an intelligent but unscrupulous man, who defends morally repulsive theses, while his main interlocutor, Hippias, whoin other texts is presented as a sophist, that teaches for money, tries to defend the ethical position usually attributed to Plato’s dear master. In this paper we present a brief review of current academic literature on the, so called, "mouthpiece theory". We question the assumption that Socrates is only and always Plato’s voice in his dialogues, differentiating dramatis personaestatements fromthe message the author, as "dramatist", tries to convey in this text, whose subject are the lessons of Homer'sheroic poetry. This paper includes an interpretative essay based on a new Portuguese translation from the dialogue, and explores the ironic dimension of the conversation between Socrates and Hippias, the apologist of poetry against the fallacies that lead to famous Socratic paradoxes.