Philosophy in Dialogue: Plato's Many Devices
(Part of the Topics in Historical Philosophy Series)
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Traditional Plato scholarship, in the English-speaking world, has assumed that Platonic dialogues are merely collections of arguments. Inevitably, the question arises: If Plato wanted to present collections of arguments, why did he write dialogues instead of treatises? Concerned about this question, some scholars have been experimenting with other, more contextualized ways of reading the dialogues. This anthology is among the first to present these...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0810123568
ISBN13:9780810123564
Release Date:August 2007
Publisher:Northwestern University Press
Length:296 Pages
Weight:1.04 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.3" x 9.0"
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