Platone e la scrittura di dialoghi socratici : strategie, interlocutori e finalità

The topic of this research focuses on Plato's Socratic dialogues, of which a literary and socio-political analysis is proposed. By employing real historical characters, Plato aims at influencing his readers ("backwards élenchos"), just as Socrates aimed at influencing, via the dialogical method, his audience and his interlocutors. Besides providing an example of philosophical method, the dialogical style impacts on auditors and allows a reformation of society. Such a method is then analyzed in its maieutic aspects, by pointing at its strategies, its aims, and at the kind of knowledge it allows. A catalogue is provided of stylistic and dramaturgical elements, as well as textual analyses (Lachetes, Carmides, Gorgias, the Seventh Letter), which allow a detailed grasp of the Socratic and Platonic philosophical style.