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Plato’s Hipparchus: A Forgotten Dialogue

An aporetic dialogue on “love of gain.”

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Ascend Book Club
Oct 25, 2026

All Socratic rhetoric is tailored to the interlocutor.

But what if the interlocutor is nameless and unknown?

How does the lack of dramatic detail inform Plato’s intended pedagogy?

In this episode of Ascend, Dcn. Garlick and Dr. Grabowski discuss a short, strange, and somewhat forgotten Platonic dialogue—the Hipparchus. The dialogue takes up the question of…

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