The paper is dedicated to an iconic figure of the European philosophy - to Socrates, who is considered as a dramatic character and protagonist of Plato’s philosophical dramaturgy, which combines the traits of tragedy as well as those of comedy. Our theoretical background is the ideas proposed by a Russian philologist and cultural student - O.M. Freidenberg. According to her, the phenomenon of comic and the comedy represent a counterpart of philosophy. Socrates is treated traditionally as a tragic figure: a person condemned to death, a philosopher who was expelled not only from his native city but moreover from the life itself. But through the optics of Olga Freidenberg Plato’s Socrates, who represents the philosopher par excellence, is seen as a figure both tragic and comic. This interpretation allows to reconsider the philosophy of Plato and at the same time to put a question about the nature of the philosophical position as such.