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  • 1 - Socrates in the Republic

  • Edited by Mark L. McPherran, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
  • Book:
    Plato's 'Republic'
    Published online:
    04 February 2011
    Print publication:
    25 November 2010, pp 11-31

  • Summary

    Not only is Socrates one of the fictional characters in the Republic, he is also its fictional voice. To the modern narratologist, Socrates is the Republic's "internal narrator". This chapter begins with a description of his private thoughts. It also discusses three other Platonic dialogues, internally narrated by Socrates: the Lysis, the Charmides, and the Lovers. Unexpected interventions are plentiful in the Republic; and they are sometimes connected with a private thought of Socrates' in a way that has no parallel in the other three dialogues for which he serves as internal narrator. Socrates invites Glaucon to join him as he rousts justice from a shadowy thicket; shouts as he comes upon its tracks; berates himself for not seeing it sooner. Socrates becomes less authoritative in the sense that he is no longer concealing his moves from his interlocutors.