Philosophy in Dialogue : Plato's Many Devices

CHRISTOPHER P. LONG sion of the good, the beautiful, and the just into the human community by engaging in dialogue with others. ...

IS THERE METHOD IN THIS MADNESS? man Discourse, Eros, and Madness in Plato’s Republic,” Review of Metaphysics 55, no. 2 (2001). ...

CHRISTOPHER P. LONG formal mode of address normally used in the courts; not unlike the pseudo- civility practiced in the U.S. Co ...

IS THERE METHOD IN THIS MADNESS? For the recognition that the wreath of ivy and violets represents both Dionysus and Athens, se ...

CHRISTOPHER P. LONG See Symposium 189a– b, when Eryximachus says to Aristophanes: “Al- though you are supposed to be giving a s ...

193193 Traveling with Socrates: Dialectic in the Phaedo and Protagoras Gerard Kuperus In this essay, I argue that Socratic or Pl ...

GERARD KUPERUS forms), and both are dealing with these eternal truths within a world that is characterized by change or fl ux. I ...

TRAVELING WITH SOCRATES fi rst things Prot agoras tells them is that he himself does “not conform to the method” many other soph ...

GERARD KUPERUS logue in a discussion of “being” and “becoming.” In interpreting a poem of Simonides, one of Socrates’ claims is ...

TRAVELING WITH SOCRATES Navigation: How to Distinguish Ways from Non-Ways After the interlocutors in the Protagoras have decided ...

GERARD KUPERUS Their methods of navigating—through life or through the sea—raise suspicion precisely because both are dealing wi ...

TRAVELING WITH SOCRATES point in the dialogue, when the method with which to proceed was be- ing determined. This metaphor is al ...

GERARD KUPERUS The Dialectical Labyrinth: From Pythagorean Opposites to Socratic Logos In the last part of this paper I discuss ...

TRAVELING WITH SOCRATES who gives us a thread in the form of the discourse, as a sort of “father of our debate [path;r tou` lovg ...

GERARD KUPERUS initial argument of the circular movement between opposites. It is strik- ing that this anamnesis theory is not i ...

TRAVELING WITH SOCRATES from the opposites to something equal, a move from the Pythagorean discourse to the Socratic-Platonic lo ...

GERARD KUPERUS or well) of poros. Poros is a way through or over, a passage, but also a re- source. Poros is opposed to hodos, a ...

TRAVELING WITH SOCRATES tempt to fi nd “the cause of generation and decay” after Anaxagoras and others disappointed him. Second, ...

GERARD KUPERUS suasion of others, the true dialectician wants to convince himself. Yet precisely this “selfi sh attitude”—as Soc ...

TRAVELING WITH SOCRATES told by Diotima in the Symposium, who can only be resourceful in the company of penia, Socrates can only ...