Socratic Dialogues in Dystopia

In thisocratic dialogues, there is an end point that Socrates is getting to, right? The whole thing is this big trap to maneuver glaucon or whatever. To get them to be like, Oh gosh, dang it. You got me again. And then the point he wants to make is inevitably the end of the argument. What's notable here is that all of the things that we shoot out to these kind of thought experiments are like 20th century ways of thinking about thought experiments. There's something going on here where the form of the argument, the dialogue is running into contemporary philosophy. This is not a mistake. Like, he knows what he's doing. It