Dialectic and Dialogue: Plato's Practice of Philosophical InquiryDialectic and Dialogue seeks to define the method and the aims of Plato's dialectic in both the "inconclusive" dialogues and the dialogues that describe and practice a method of hypothesis. Departing from most treatments of Plato, Gonzalez argues that the philosophical knowledge at which dialectic aims is nonpropositional, practical, and reflexive. The result is a reassessment of how Plato understood the nature of philosophy. |
Contents
Philosophical Imitation | 5 |
Failed Virtue and Failed Knowledge in the Meno | 153 |
A Second Sailing in the Phaedo | 188 |
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Dialectic and Dialogue: Plato's Practice of Philosophical Inquiry Francisco Gonzalez Limited preview - 1998 |
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analogy answer Anytus aporia appears argues argument ascent beauty brothers chapter characterization Charmides claim clearly Cleinias conclusion contradiction courage Cratylus Critias criticism Crito Ctesippus defective define definition depends described DIALECTIC AND DIALOGUE dialectician Dionysodorus discourse discussion distinction distinguish doxa elenchus epistēmē eristic esotericists etymologies Euthydemus example explain express Gaiser Glaucon Gorgias hypothetical method ideal images imitation inquiry insight inspiration instantiations interlocutors interpretation kind of knowledge knowledge of knowledge knowledge of virtue Laches language manifest means Meno Meno's method of hypothesis nature Nehamas Nicias nonpropositional NOTES TO PAGES passage Phaedo philosophical Plato Plato's philosophy poet possible precisely present presupposes principle problem propositional knowledge propositions Protagoras protreptic question reason recognize recollection refer refutation relation Republic revealed Robinson seems seen self-knowledge sense Seventh Letter simply slave sophists soul specific suggests temperance theory thing true belief truth understanding Vlastos What-is-x words