Antisteno polemika su Platonu dėl dorybės statuso. Retorika, brachilogija ir vardo teorija
Antisthenes’ polemic with Plato on the status of virtue. Rhetoric, brachylogy, and the theory of names

Summary/Abstract: This article examines the following features of the philosophy of the Socratic thinker Antisthenes (c. 445– 365 BCE), as preserved in fragments: the form of his philosophical writings; the principle of brachylogy; and his theory of names. This analysis is problematic in the context of the presumed polemic between Antisthenes and Plato concerning the Socratic concept of virtue and its pedagogical and linguistic aspects. These features of Antisthenes’ philosophy are referenced in both Aristotle’s ‘Metaphysics’ and Diogenes Laërtius’ ‘Lives of the Philosophers’. Drawing on these ancient sources, as well as modern interpretations by Charles Kahn, Luc Brisson, Menahem Luz and Vladislav Suvák, we will analyse Antisthenes’ preference for a non-Platonic rhetorical form; the principle of brachylogy, which is common to both Antisthenes’ and Plato’s philosophies; and the teaching implied by Antisthenes’ theory of names, which concerns the impossibility of contradiction. This methodological approach provides a better understanding of the Socratic movement and Antisthenes’ place within it. Together with the analysis of the aforementioned features of Antisthenes’ philosophy, this strategy creates the conditions for re-examining Plato’s philosophy as not only polemic with the Sophists, but also as a critical dialogue with other Socratics.

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