What Plato Dramatized
Spcrates continues developing his sophistic argument which will eventually lead to yet another proof
Socrates' apparently dialectical elenchus turns out to be more of a sophistic exercise with the fore
While the four rhetorical arguments to prove that Io lacked techne and nous at the moment he deliver
Socrates' four analogies supporting his claim that Io lacks techne, nous, or episteme whenever he pe
Socrates completes his fourth analogy illustrating why rhapsodes lack techne and episteme when perfo
Purportedly to explain why even the emotions instilled in the spectator are not due to the skill of
Now that Io has agreed that he is affected by the poetry he declaims, Socrates asks whether the audi
Having shown to Io's delight with three examples why poets lack techne, Socrates begins to interroga
My final thoughts on the three analogies concerning the mindlessness of poets producing good poetry.
Ostensibly to prove the third claim regarding the lack of intelligence of poets at the time of perfo
Socrates adds a third reason for the poets' lack of intelligence, inconsistent with the other two re
Socrates makes some interesting wordplays and confusions between the two analogies - the magnet and
Socrates continues telling Io about the divine power, this time using the analogy of bees spreading
The alternative to Io having a techne is that he is possessed by a divine power. Socrates first uses
Io seems almost to challenge Socrates to tell him why he is exceptional as someone with a techne, in
Socrates appears to perform a normal sequence of induction, but things are not quite what they seem.
To exemplify the point that any techne deals with the whole of the field of that techne, Socrates re
The rhapsode Io can judge of the poets both who speaks well and who speaks less well since he has th
Socrates concludes from the examples with arithmetic and medicine that the one who has a techne in a
Socrates steers the conversation back to the subject matter by asking who will recognize who speaks
