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Form and argument in late Plato

Author: Christopher Gill; Mary Margaret McCabe
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Why did Plato put his philosophical arguments into dialogues, rather than presenting them in a plain and readily understandable fashion? In writing rich tales of philosophical encounters, does Plato desert argumentative clarity? While recent work has focused on the literary brilliance of the early dialogues, the late dialogues present a particular problem: they lack the vivid literary character of Plato's earlier
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Form and argument in late Plato.
Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996
(OCoLC)651857311
Named Person: Plato.; PlatÃo; 0428-0348 av J C Platon; Platon
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Christopher Gill; Mary Margaret McCabe
ISBN: 0198240120 9780198240129
OCLC Number: 33206743
Description: x, 345 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: Unity in the Parmenides : the unity of the Parmenides / Mary Margaret McCabe --
Likeness and likenesses in the Parmenides / Malcolm Schofield --
Three Platonist interpretations of the Theaetetus / David Sedley Conflicting appearances : Theaetetus 153d-154b / Gail Fine --
The literary form of the Sophist / Michael Frede --
The Politicus : structure and form / Christopher Rowe --
Space, time, shape, and direction : creative discourse in the Timaeus / Catherine Osborne --
The hedonist's conversion : the role of Socrates in the Philebus / Dorothea Frede --
Reading the Laws / Christopher Bobonich --
Afterword : dialectic and the dialogue form in late Plato / Christopher Gill.
Responsibility: edited by Christopher Gill and Mary Margaret McCabe.
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Abstract:

Why did Plato put his philosophical arguments into dialogues, rather than presenting them in a plain and readily understandable fashion? In writing rich tales of philosophical encounters, does Plato desert argumentative clarity? While recent work has focused on the literary brilliance of the early dialogues, the late dialogues present a particular problem: they lack the vivid literary character of Plato's earlier works, and the dialogue structure seems to be a mere formality. Is there a philosophical reason why Plato's late works are in the form of dialogues? In this volume, a group of internationally prominent scholars address that question. Their answers are fresh, varied, and powerfully argued.

This volume offers both a series of first-class essays on major late Platonic dialogues and a discussion which has important implications for the study of philosophical method and the relation between philosophy and literature. It shows that the literary form and modes of dialectic of the late dialogues are richly rewarding to study, and that doing so is of deep importance for Plato's philosophical project.

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