Philosophy in Dialogue : Plato's Many Devices

xx INTRODUCTION Platonic dialogue and does not really purport to be philosophically so- phisticated (despite the fact that it so ...

xxi INTRODUCTION word “method” must not be construed in a modern, “proto-scientifi c” sense, where “method” refers to “objective ...

xxii INTRODUCTION way he crafts his dialogues. It is well also to keep in mind that Plato’s “texts” were crafted, one might say, ...

xxiii INTRODUCTION matter. It is simply that philosophy today has moved so far away from practice that it is necessary to remind ...

xxiv INTRODUCTION Socrates as the philosophical exemplar, perhaps also advanced as the paradigmatic philosopher, or the philosop ...

xxv INTRODUCTION Plato’s dialogues contain many references to Greek medical prac- tice and medical tradition. Some scholars have ...

xxvi INTRODUCTION nosis of human life, enabling men of future ages to recognize recurrent ethico-political maladies by their sym ...

xxvii INTRODUCTION inspire in his audiences the recognition of philosophical truth. Through careful analysis and comparison of a ...

xxviii INTRODUCTION oneness, a unity that includes plurality. The more the dialogue makes things many—distinctions, classifi cat ...

xxix INTRODUCTION The author concludes by showing that Socrates is a curious Theseus who often changes ways into non-ways, and n ...

xxx INTRODUCTION Socratic Elenchi,” in Does Socrates Have a Method? Rethinking the Elenchus in Plato’s Dialogues and Beyond, ed. ...

xxxi INTRODUCTION down to the very same knowledge entailed in Socratic ignorance, namely, that he knows what he doesn’t know. T ...

xxxii INTRODUCTION Hadot, What Is Ancient Philosophy?, 73, quoting Goldschmidt, Les Dia- logues de Platon (Paris, 1947), 3. See ...

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33 Plato’s Book of Images Nicholas D. Smith The things they mould and draw, which have shadows and im- ages of themselves in wat ...

NICHOLAS D. SMITH It will not come as news to hear that the Republic has been read in many, sometimes radically, different ways. ...

PLATO’S BOOK OF IMAGES opposites, while those that do not do this do not tend to awaken the intellect [ejgertika; th`~ nohvsew~] ...

NICHOLAS D. SMITH Mathematicians and Knowledge The problem we encountered in the last section was that Plato criti- cizes the im ...

PLATO’S BOOK OF IMAGES epistemic approval of the mathematicians—must be understood in the light of his conception of the cogniti ...