On The Relationship Between The Literary Form Of Plato's Dialogue And Its Thought

Plato's writings were mostly written in the style of dialogue. By using this unique style of the form, Plato described the lives of an unprecedented intelligence and the mysteries of life. Access to Plato's world, there are lots of roads, but bis writing style of dialogue is a thoroughfare, for it can help us better understand Plato, presenting a living Plato rather than a boring Plato to the readers.Any text is inseparable from the emergence and development of the interaction of two aspects, one is the author's actively constructing and his unique nature of personal temperament, the other is the spirit of time and the practice of history .Plato used the dialogue approach to the philosophical thinking, on the one hand, thanks to his natural-born poet temperament, making him into a philosopher and a passionate poet .so he realized the organic integration of philosophy and poem; On the other hand, the dialogue style is deeply rooted in ancient Greek social and cultural soil. The formation of an open world, the functioning of democracy, the Greece rational development, the vitality of life world, all of these factors made the Greek society that not only has close connection but also independence of each other .This produced a new type of social relations and interpersonal relations. Through dialogue, people resolved disputes and the conflict of spiritual world.Plato absorbed the ancient Greek literature stylistic forms, such as myth, epic, tragedy, comedy, history, biographies, fables, poetry and other basic elements of into his writings of dialogue. It made dialogue a unique style, connecting the imagination of myth, and the truth of history; the passion of poetry, and the fierce collision of drama. The dual identity of Poet and philosopher made Plato different with the other philosophers in history. He didn't directly reveal their viewpoints and intentions in his works, but hid their thoughts and intentions through an esoteric way, then subtly conveys their thoughts. Plato was a great dramatist and his philosophy was a great drama. He was not only good at the whole (plot), but also good at taking advantage of the details (scenes) to show their own position and views of philosophy. Only being acutely aware of all this, we can open its philosophical mask, and grasp the essence of his thought.To learn more about a thinker's thought, we should try to understand what the problem he considers is. Plato thought a lot of questions, but its core question should be how people are living, what kind of life is good life. Plato's philosophy started on this problem, in its seemingly cold and abstract concept of speculative argumentation he was dedicated to a better life and the thinking pursuit .The interpretation of Plato's dialogue style, should be placed on the background of this philosophy. Dialogue in Plato's philosophy, not only had the significance of methodology, but also was a way of life advocated by Plato .which was the only way to a intelligent life. Plato used the dialogue to counter the rhetorical technique wise; his aim would rather be criticism and reflection on their life style than on the Wise and rhetorical technique.The dialogue style has had a far-reaching effect on the expression and communications of Plato's thought. On the one hand, it had a positive impact on the expression and communication of Plato's thought. Such were the specific performance: firstly, through literary techniques, it makes profound philosophical abstract figurative for the reader's acceptance and wide dissemination in the future generations have created favorable conditions; secondly, It makes the charm of philosophy not only in thought-provoking conclusions, but the truth is to explore the process of dialogue makes the exploration of thought into a live exercise process, which is consistent with the nature of truth. On the other hand, its also has a negative impact on expression of Plato's thought and communication, mainly as follows: the poetic and dramatic expression of the real intention of alluding to make Plato's almost become a non-interpreted the "mystery" of readers constitute a great challenge, and easily so that readers from going astray; Although the dialogue it initiated by the two sides communicate the principles of equality, but at a specific writing process, there is no good will to implement this principle, but too much space in the name of Socrates, resulting in a dialogue both sides the right to speak the serious imbalance in the dialogue Socrates substantially reduced personal monologue.Globalization has made a decentralized world into a closer world. Culture communication between various countries, all ethnic groups are becoming more frequent. This will provide a great historical opportunity for all people and cultures. But this also exacerbates the contradictions and conflicts among the nationalities and cultures. How to go forth from conflict to integration, and to achieve mutual exchange and dialogue in good faith, has become a worldwide concern relating to the future of world trends and cultural development. Plato's dialogue contains enormous philosophical intelligence, it provides with methodology resources and values of resources for the dialogue of today's world. It is worth digging deeper, in order to contribute the development of the world's multi-cultural and the harmonious coexistence of all ethnic groups!...