Socrates and Plato: an introduction

Lane, Melissa

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“…An interesting case in this respect is Plato. Various studies provide evidence for a stylistic development in the classical philosopher’s prose (Lane, 2000). Some stylistic features might have been deliberately adopted, while others might have evolved rather unconsciously (Brandwood, 1992).…”

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A style for every age: A stylometric inquiry into crosswriters for children, adolescents and adults

Haverals

Geybels

Joosen

2022

Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics

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In the field of children’s literature studies, much attention has been devoted to investigating differences between children’s and adult literature. Works of crosswriters, authors who write for both readerships in different works, are an excellent source for this research. This article applies stylometry, the computational method of analysing style, to the oeuvres of 10 Dutch and English crosswriters to trace potential differences in their individual style and similarities between the authors. The analyses also take into account the age of the intended reader (as listed in the paratext) and the publication date, to study the influence these aspects have on writing style. Four case studies zoom in on a specific author or age category of the intended readership to study general tendencies as well as outliers. The results from the stylometric analyses are complemented with peritextual information about the author’s view on style and writing for readerships of different ages. The main conclusion drawn from the case studies is that the style of the texts usually correlates more strongly with the age of the intended reader than with the time period in which it was written. Young adult literature clusters more closely with adult literature. The style associated with a younger readership is distinct in the oeuvres of most authors studied in this article and even transcends the differences between authors.

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A style for every age: A stylometric inquiry into crosswriters for children, adolescents and adults

Haverals

Geybels

Joosen

2022

Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics

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“…But it is possible that Plato sometimes worked on more than one dialogue at once. As Melissa Lane observes, it is difficult to establish an exact chronology for the dialogues, especially since some works may have been “in progress” for years (2000, 157). Christopher Bobonich says that because the Laws is the longest of Plato's dialogues, “it is reasonable to think that its composition overlapped with some of his other late works” (2008, 329).…”

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The Minos and the Socratic Examination of Law

Lutz

2010

American J Political Sci

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The Minos is said to initiate the natural law tradition because it claims that an unjust law is not truly a law. But the dialogue also shows that reason cannot recognize that a given statute, as such, is a law. Along with this criticism of law, the Minos shows why the Socratic inquiry into law must consider whether divine law is based on a kind of knowledge through which law can be recognized as authoritative. Thanks to the Minos, we see that Plato's Laws begins by examining the kind of knowledge that underlies divine law and that throughout the dialogue the Athenian Stranger is testing whether human reason can know and establish divine law. In the end, the Minos and Laws establish a once influential but now neglected Socratic tradition of inquiry into law.

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The Trial of Socrates Revisited

Millett¹

2005

European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire

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Socrates and Plato: an introduction

Cited by 4 publications

References 507 publications

A style for every age: A stylometric inquiry into crosswriters for children, adolescents and adults

A style for every age: A stylometric inquiry into crosswriters for children, adolescents and adults

The Minos and the Socratic Examination of Law

The Trial of Socrates Revisited

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