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1. Platonic Dialogues

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   The Role of Socrates and the 'Socratic Problem'
   The Socratic Problem refers to the difficulty of distinguishing the historical Socrates) from the character Plato/) uses as a mouthpiece. Modern scholarship posits that Socrates in the dialogues functions less as a historical personage and more as a literary construct who…