Plato’s Theaetetus: On the Way of the Logos

Benardete, Seth, "Plato's Theaetetus: On the Way of the Logos," The Argument of the Action: Essays on Greek Poetry and Philosophy, eds. Ronna Burger and Michael Davis, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2000.

Excerpt:

The opening of the Theaetetus is curious. The report we have of another opening of nearly the same length indicates that it was always a curiosity. If both openings are Plato’s, and the rest of the dialogue they preface were not different, then Plato changed his mind about how to start off the trilogy to which the Theaetetus belongs; if the second version is spurious, someone thought he could surpass Plato and make a more sensible introduction; but if ours is spurious, then we cannot hope to interpret it.

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