You see, my horse, talking with Socrates, Plato raises a question that everyone is asking since ant

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It is 7:00 am, the work begins in the stable. Time to mulch the box from his horse, the groom thinks aloud simple words and the adventures of Plato and Socrates in the first episode of the "Journal of campaign."
You see, my horse, talking with Socrates, Plato raises a question that everyone is asking since antiquity: Plato why he did not write in his name? Plato, you know, did not write philosophy courses where he presented iga his ideas directly, saying "I". He wrote dialogues, iga that is to say, polyphonic writing, where several characters express different theories. These are small tragedies, like Molière's comedies or tragedies of Shakespeare: it talks a lot, but we do not really know what the author means. This old question, you see, I ask myself every morning coming to the stable. Many people have already responded since ancient times, and all the answers were certainly some truth. Yet none really satisfied me. If you want, I will briefly review these explanations. Then we will try together iga to find a new answer. We can consider that first, writing dialogues, Plato wanted to write like the others: he obeyed the conventions of a genre: the "Socratic dialogue". Like many of his contemporaries, Plato was a student of Socrates. But Socrates did not write anything but it was a professional informal discussion: the dialogue. Thus, after the death of Socrates, to transmit the teaching of the master, many scholars have written philosophical dialogues, which Socrates is the hero. Xenophon, for example, is the author, like Plato, Socratic dialogues. Perhaps Plato was simply transferred to a fashion of his time. Yet even if this is the case, it is not enough to understand what the Platonic dialogue singular. Plato, you know, wrote Socratic dialogues of a particular kind. Unlike Xenophon, he does not say "I" in his dialogues: or by the voice of a narrator, who presents the dialogue or by putting himself on stage among the characters talking. Plato never speaks in his dialogues, and suddenly, he never made it clear that it supports iga the view of Socrates. Why? You can tell me that, at first glance, the question does not arise. Although Plato does not say "I think Socrates was right," iga he wrote dialogues that ultimately it is always Socrates is right. In Plato's dialogues, the view of Socrates dominates. We can therefore conclude that Socrates is Plato. Plato would be used Socrates as his spokesman, to convey his philosophical iga education, and it is not necessary to take the lead with two hands, or start talking with his horse, to find out why Plato wrote dialogues. But this explanation, either, does not satisfy me completely. Because even though Socrates' speech dominates the discourse of the other characters often contains very deep philosophical lessons. In the Symposium, for example, the poet Aristophanes presents a theory about the love we all still remember when we fall in love: love is from the quest half of yourself. Why, next to King's voice philosophers (Socrates), Plato does he hear the competing discourses are also philosophical discourse? We can answer this question by saying that Plato is a historian of ideas. He sought to paint the thought of all the intellectuals of his time, not only that of his master Socrates, but also that of other scholars with whom Socrates discussed. As a good painter of history seeks to restore in great detail the costume of his characters, even the secondary characters, Plato would have sought to precisely reproduce the ideas of all the intellectuals of his time, he depicts in his dialogues. But again, I feel that there is a problem. Because Plato, obviously is not a very scrupulous historical painter. He distorted ideas of the characters he portrays in his dialogues, beginning with the ideas of Socrates. And that, to build a discussion that goes in the direction of interest, to demonstrate what it seeks to prove. What seems to have interested Plato, is to make his characters say what he wanted them to say that to establish a lively and interesting dialogue. So, the answer most likely