A imagem do filósofo: o Teeteto de Platão e o método de Sócrates

Abstract

It is intended to offer a justification, as it seems to have been indicated by Plato in the Theaetetus, for the method of Socrates, announced in Apologia as an anthropíne sophía, able to evaluate the different types of knowledge. The recourse to the image of maieutics in the Theaetetus brings the representation of an aspect of this method, after the refutation (élenkhos), in which the examiner and midwife raises the opinions of the interlocutor until his transcendent principle, to show them or their emptiness or its strength. As we shall see, Plato's Dialogue seems not only to represent the method of Socrates, but to draw inspiration from it for the composition of his discourse, which plays with the form of seeing and with what is seen from it.