Hippias Major
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Hippias Major is a Platonic dialogue in which Socrates and the sophist Hippias attempt, and repeatedly fail, to define the nature of beauty.
Observed surface forms (1)
| Surface form | As subject | As object |
|---|---|---|
| Hippias Minor | 0 | 1 |
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Platonic dialogue
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Socratic dialogue → |
| author | Plato → |
| authorshipStatus |
disputed
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traditionally attributed to Plato → |
| cataloguedIn | Thrasyllan tetralogies → |
| centralQuestion |
What is beauty itself?
→
What is the beautiful? → |
| characterRoleOfHippias | sophist → |
| characterRoleOfSocrates | questioner → |
| conclusion | no final definition of beauty is reached → |
| corpus |
Platonic corpus
→
Socratic dialogues of Plato → |
| dialogueForm | elenchus → |
| ending | aporia → |
| examinesConcept |
absolute beauty
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difference between examples and essence → relativism about beauty → use of examples in definition → |
| featuresCharacter |
Eudicus
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Hippias of Elis → Socrates → |
| focusesOn | distinction between beautiful things and Beauty itself → |
| genre |
aesthetic treatise
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philosophical dialogue → |
| hasTitleInGreek | Ἱππίας μείζων → |
| influenced |
later aesthetic theory
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medieval discussions of pulchrum → |
| language | Ancient Greek → |
| mainTheme | beauty → |
| period | Classical Greek philosophy → |
| philosophicalApproach | dialectic → |
| philosophicalTopic |
Socratic method
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aesthetics → definition of beauty → nature of the beautiful → |
| preservedIn | manuscripts of Platonic dialogues → |
| questionsViewOf |
beauty as appropriateness
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beauty as pleasure → beauty as usefulness → |
| relatedWork |
Hippias Minor
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Phaedrus → Συμπόσιον →
surface form:
Symposium
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| setIn | Athens → |
| structure | aporetic → |
| style |
early Platonic style (according to some scholars)
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possibly later Platonic style (according to other scholars) → |
| traditionallyDatedTo | 4th century BCE → |
Referenced by (3)
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this entity surface form:
Hippias Minor