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Who Speaks for Plato?
Language: en
Pages: 268
Authors: Gerald Alan Press
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

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These essays examine a crucial premise of traditional readings of Plato's dialogues: that Plato's own philosophical dialogues can be read off the statements mad
Socrates and Philosophy in the Dialogues of Plato
Language: en
Pages: 311
Authors: Sandra Peterson
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-03-10 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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In Plato's Apology, Socrates says he spent his life examining and questioning people on how best to live, while avowing that he himself knows nothing important.
Plato's Rivalry with Medicine
Language: en
Pages: 315
Authors: Susan B. Levin
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher:

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While scholars typically view Plato's engagement with medicine as uniform and largely positive, Susan B. Levin argues that from the Gorgias through the Laws, hi
Conversation and Self-Sufficiency in Plato
Language: en
Pages: 193
Authors: Alex Long
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04-11 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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A. G. Long presents a new account of the importance of conversation in Plato's philosophy. He provides close studies of eight dialogues, including some of Plato
The Gatekeeper: Narrative Voice in Plato's Dialogues
Language: en
Pages: 200
Authors: Margalit Finkelberg
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-11-22 - Publisher: BRILL

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In The Gatekeeper: Narrative Voice in Plato’s Dialogues Margalit Finkelberg offers the first narratological analysis of all of Plato’s transmitted dialogues