Abstract

Diskin Clay’s Platonic Questions is a bold attempt to represent the essential trajectory of Plato’s unique way of philosophical writing in order to induce the reader to imitate Plato. Nevertheless, the question Clay’s readers need to ask him is whether we can read Plato, at this point in history, having enough in common with his vital philosophical concerns to be able to imitate the way he philosophized in his dialogues? Clay’s bold project calls for such a bold question.