Argument
Dialogue
Overview
Dialogue (sometimes spelled dialog in American English) is an interactive communication between two or more people, and a literary and theatrical form that depicts such an exchange. As a philosophical or didactic device, it is chiefly associated in the West with the Socratic dialogue as developed by Plato, but antecedents are also found in other traditions including Indian literature.
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There are some subjects, however, to which dialogue-writing is peculiarly adapted, and where it is still preferable to the direct and simple method of composition.
David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
Names Dialogue several times; the book is titled for Dialogue.
The most varied schools and principles proceeded from this doctrine of Socrates, and this was made a reproach against him, but it was really due to the indefiniteness and abstraction of his principle. And in this way it is only particular forms of this principle which can at first be recognized in philosophic systems which we call Socratic. Under the name of Socratic, I understand, however, those schools and methods…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy
Names Dialogue several times.
Pharsalia, 88. Pheidolaüs, of Haliartus, 11, 12, 13, 19, 32, 35. Pheneātae, 193. Phenĕüs, a town in Arcadia, 193. Pherecȳdēs, a learned man of Syros (fl. 544), 294. Pherenīcus, 8, 10. Philēbus, a late Dialogue of Plato, on _Pleasure_, 71. Philīnus, a speaker in the Second Pythian Dialogue. Cp. _Sympos._ 1, 6; 4, 1; 5, 10; 8, 7. Philip of Macedon (d. 336), 233. Philip, son of Cassander, king of Macedon (d. 296), 198…
Plutarch, Selected Essays of Plutarch, Vol. II.
Names Dialogue several times; the author is tied to Dialogue in the knowledge graph.
Philosophers who discussed Dialogue
- John Scotus Eriugena
- Hans-Georg Gadamer
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- Augustine of Hippo
- Anselm of Canterbury
- Parmenides
- Plutarch
- Socrates
- Charmides (dialogue)
- Imre Lakatos
- Euclid of Megara
- Gabriel Bonnot de Mably
- Rabirius (Epicurean)
Related ideas
- Socratic dialogue
- Avicenna
- Greek language
- George Berkeley
- Argument
- Holy See
- Philosophy
- Jürgen Habermas
- Justin Martyr
- Lucian
- Nicolas Malebranche
- Language
- Latin
- George Santayana
- David Bohm
- Metaphysics
- Literature
- Middle East
- Mahabharata
- Thomas Aquinas
- Oxford English Dictionary
- Martin Buber
- Plato
- Physicist
Place in the tradition
Part of Cynicism (philosophy).