Plato's Greater Hippias -- Brief Introduction

[@rudolphbripple6733]

Thank you for the perspective I was having trouble finding a way into this one!

[@platosworld]

My pleasure--glad it helped!

[@alexgenadinikmusicandpoetr1012]

Thank you for posting this - it's great. I am doing something related and it's really helpful. My addition to the question "what is beautiful?" is "Beauty is that which inspires" :)

[@platosworld]

You're welcome. On the subject of beauty and inspiration, you may also want to check out Plato's Ion and my brief introduction to that dialogue

[@touchedbyasong]

@@platosworld Ah - I found your comment here :) but this ins't the rebuke you had to "beauty is that which inspires" - do you recall what it was? :)

[@ryth3m890]

Thank you, this was helpful.

[@platosworld]

You're welcome!

[@TannerCLynn]

I wonder if Socrates used the “unnamed questioner,” he kept playing the role of, to avoid culpability in what Hippias immediately labeled sacrilege?

[@platosworld]

That makes sense. "Plausible deniability." Though Hippias sees through this disguise, and Socrates himself drops it. I like to think that in the unnamed questioner we get a glimpse of the real Socrates, so to speak, his insistent disintegration of seeming wholes (including himself).