Philosophy in Dialogue : Plato's Many Devices

JILL GORDON Near the end of book 9 of the Republic, Glaucon comes to under- stand the purpose of the images Socrates has drawn, ...

IN PLATO’S IMAGE Socrates’ life mission, as he describes it in the Apology, is at its core to “put to the proof and distinguish” ...

JILL GORDON are not only legitimate and useful, but are a part of the human manner of proceeding philosophically. In a consisten ...

IN PLATO’S IMAGE in their hands: when their two halves are pulled open, they are found to contain images of gods. (215a– b) As A ...

JILL GORDON act of ignorance, but they are different insofar as Meno’s slave has ad- mitted his ignorance. They are similar inso ...

IN PLATO’S IMAGE to images? Perhaps yes. But fortunately we have philosophy. If we take seriously that this world is a mere imag ...

JILL GORDON Notes This essay is taken from chapter 6 of my book, Turning Toward Philosophy: Literary Device and Dramatic Struct ...

IN PLATO’S IMAGE dialogues about human limitation and the role of vision. Gadamer, in Dialogue and Dialectic: Eight Hermeneutica ...

JILL GORDON of the spoken (276a8– 9) and the assumption that the image is to be understood relative to its original” (219). As ...

IN PLATO’S IMAGE Writings, Platonic Readings, ed. Charles L. Griswold Jr. (University Park: Pennsyl- vania State University Pres ...

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239 Appendix: Dramatic Dates of Plato’s Dialogues Dialogues with Dramatic Dates in Socrates’ Lifetime (470/469– 399 B.C.E.) Parm ...

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