Hippias Minor

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Platonic dialogue Socratic dialogue

Hippias Minor is a Socratic dialogue traditionally attributed to Plato, in which Socrates debates the nature of lying and whether the voluntary wrongdoer is better than the involuntary one.

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Label	Occurrences
Hippias Minor canonical	6
Plato's dialogue Hippias Minor	1

Statements (45)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Platonic dialogue ⓘ Socratic dialogue ⓘ
argumentativeMethod	elenchus ⓘ
authenticityStatus	disputed by some scholars ⓘ
author	Plato ⓘ
canonicalStatus	included in many editions of Plato's works ⓘ
centralDebate	the nature of lying ⓘ the relation between knowledge and wrongdoing ⓘ
corpus	Platonic corpus ⓘ
dialogueForm	question-and-answer ⓘ
featuresCharacter	Eudicus ⓘ Hippias of Elis ⓘ
focusesOn	distinction between voluntary and involuntary actions ⓘ ethical evaluation of lying ⓘ
genre	philosophical dialogue ⓘ
hasCharacterRole	Hippias as interlocutor ⓘ Socrates as principal questioner ⓘ
influenceOn	interpretations of Socratic ethics ⓘ later discussions of lying in philosophy ⓘ
language	Ancient Greek ⓘ
literaryReference	Homer's Iliad ⓘ Homer's Odyssey ⓘ
mainCharacter	Socrates ⓘ
period	Classical Greece ⓘ surface form: Classical period of ancient Greece
philosophicalDiscipline	ethics ⓘ moral psychology ⓘ
philosophicalPositionExplored	the idea that the knowledgeable wrongdoer may be superior to the ignorant wrongdoer ⓘ
philosophicalQuestion	whether the voluntary wrongdoer is better than the involuntary one ⓘ
philosophicalTheme	involuntary wrongdoing ⓘ lying ⓘ moral responsibility ⓘ truthfulness ⓘ voluntary wrongdoing ⓘ
questionedConcept	intention in action ⓘ knowledge ⓘ virtue ⓘ
relatedWork	Gorgias ⓘ Hippias Major ⓘ Protagoras ⓘ
setting	Greek Antiquity ⓘ surface form: Ancient Greece
styleCharacteristic	Socratic irony ⓘ
textualForm	dialogue in prose ⓘ
tradition	ancient Greek philosophy ⓘ
traditionalAttribution	Plato ⓘ
workInvolves	comparison of Achilles and Odysseus ⓘ

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Subject: Hippias Minor
Description of subject: Hippias Minor is a Socratic dialogue traditionally attributed to Plato, in which Socrates debates the nature of lying and whether the voluntary wrongdoer is better than the involuntary one.

Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Hippias Major → relatedWork → Hippias Minor ⓘ

Socratic dialogues of Plato → includesWork → Hippias Minor ⓘ

Platonic corpus → containsWork → Hippias Minor ⓘ

Thrasyllan tetralogies → includesWork → Hippias Minor ⓘ

Ἱππίας μείζων → relatedWork → Hippias Minor ⓘ

Hippias of Elis → portrayedIn → Hippias Minor ⓘ

this entity surface form: Plato's dialogue Hippias Minor

writings of Plato → containsWork → Hippias Minor ⓘ