Philosophy in Dialogue : Plato's Many Devices

MARTHA KENDAL WOODRUFF ment of his dialogues? Or did Plato show Aristotle a new method toward a measured plurality? To what exte ...

PLATO’S DIFFERENT DEVICE Georg Gadamer, Plato’s Dialectical Ethics: Phenomenological Interpretations Relating to the Philebus, t ...

MARTHA KENDAL WOODRUFF tural mastery displayed in the Phaedo and the Republic; on the other hand, the formlessness of the work h ...

PLATO’S DIFFERENT DEVICE Pain in Plato’s Philebus,” in The Cambridge Companion to Plato, ed. Richard Kraut (Cambridge: Cambridge ...

MARTHA KENDAL WOODRUFF see the studies by Frede cited above, as well as Constance Meinwald, “Pro- metheus’s Bounds: Peras and Ap ...

PLATO’S DIFFERENT DEVICE As Guthrie acknowledges, this untidiness may be a certain “lack of precision which Plato himself single ...

174174 Is There Method in This Madness? Context, Play, and Laughter in Plato’s Symposium and Republic Christopher P. Long Though ...

IS THERE METHOD IN THIS MADNESS? dramatic contexts in which the dialogues are situated, in the playful spirit with which they ar ...

CHRISTOPHER P. LONG in their own names, seek to philosophize about how to philosophize, to reason about the limits of reason. In ...

IS THERE METHOD IN THIS MADNESS? among these dialogues insofar as it is received through the recollec- tion of not one, but two ...

CHRISTOPHER P. LONG he has made it his “concern to know each day what he [Socrates] says and does” (172c). Socrates speaks in hi ...

IS THERE METHOD IN THIS MADNESS? he would himself prefer to recite the speeches than engage in a rigor- ous Socratic dialogue in ...

CHRISTOPHER P. LONG political legacy of Aristophanes, his comic poetry was held in part re- sponsible for the accusations agains ...

IS THERE METHOD IN THIS MADNESS? ens, madness and politics.^21 He provokes laughter in all who apprehend him (212c– e). Alcibiad ...

CHRISTOPHER P. LONG This would have the effect of placing him and Socrates equidistant from the most beautiful man at the party, ...

IS THERE METHOD IN THIS MADNESS? This playful manipulation of the seating arrangements illustrates how Plato brings together the ...

CHRISTOPHER P. LONG While the Republic is narrated by Socrates himself, his authority is constantly undermined by playful irony. ...

IS THERE METHOD IN THIS MADNESS? these cities win their rational stability only as they are systematically purged of eros. At th ...

CHRISTOPHER P. LONG only to one who is capable of laughing. At the beginning of book 5, it is Glaucon more than Adeimantus, Pole ...

IS THERE METHOD IN THIS MADNESS? musical.^36 Music, however, links the rational and the erotic in a way that is inherently dange ...