Philosophy in Dialogue: Plato's Many Devices

Book Overview

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"