Philosophy in Dialogue : Plato's Many Devices

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PHILOSOPHY IN DIALOGUE ...

Topics in Historical Philosophy General Editors David Kolb John McCumber Associate Editor Anthony J. Steinbock ...

PHILOSOPHY IN DIALOGUE Plato’s Many Devices Edited by Gary Alan Scott Northwestern University Press Evanston, Illinois ...

Northwestern University Press http://www.nupress.northwestern.edu Copyright © 2007 by Northwestern University Press. Published 2 ...

Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction Gary Alan Scott ix 1 Plato’s Book of Images Nicholas D. Smith 3 2 “To Say What Is Most ...

Appendix: Dramatic Dates of Plato’s Dialogues Works Cited Index Notes on the Contributors ...

vii Acknowledgments We would like to express our appreciation for all of the editorial, pro- duction, and marketing staff at Nor ...

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ix Introduction Gary Alan Scott Questions concerning Plato’s many and varied devices arise almost im- mediately upon beginning t ...

x INTRODUCTION tury, our modern conceptual framework allows scholars to distinguish, if not to isolate, philosophical components ...

xi INTRODUCTION Socrates’ trial is no mere transcript or “court report”; and moreover, in the Phaedo, Plato intriguingly writes ...

xii INTRODUCTION logues by asking what was exhibited or enacted through the course of the dialogue’s dramatic action. Is there s ...

xiii INTRODUCTION heroes.) The philosophical equivalent of a superhero might be someone knowledgeable, virtuous, compassionate, ...

xiv INTRODUCTION noted, the dialogues employ a double irony: on the one hand, irony is characteristic of Socrates’ posture towar ...

xv INTRODUCTION the audience with crucial information or to comment on the action of the play. Most conclusions reached in the d ...

xvi INTRODUCTION man beings speak differently to different people in real life?) Or might different contexts explain discrepanci ...

xvii INTRODUCTION names are signifi cant and suggestive, so this is another way in which Plato may choose to exhibit something i ...

xviii INTRODUCTION Socrates suggests (at 11e– 12a) that piety is a part of justice, but he and Euthyphro are unable to determine ...

xix INTRODUCTION that Socratic conversations (sokratikoi logoi) were already quite popular as a genre when Plato decided to comp ...