La pregunta socrática y Aristóteles

Abstract

Every understanding of the evolution of the idea of a practical philosophy between the greeks depends on acknowledging that, here, they gave us two fundamentally different types, regarding the class of philosophical texts in Plato and Aristotle. On the one side, well made dialogues that evoque Socrates or someone similar to him as if they were present, and, on the other side, lines written without the art of an articulating spirit, through a work of thought and words of teaching. The one is litterature in the highest sense of the word. The other one is a material which is difficult to decipher and which still needs to be awaken in a life of ideas. But the same excersise is done in front of both. Both classes of texts, as two forms of speaking, are presented to us as the same effort in giving an account and, with that, conducting the socratic question to its truth.