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Platonic Conversations
Mary Margaret McCabe
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Description for Platonic Conversations
hardcover. M. M. McCabe presents a selection of her essays which explore the Platonic method of conversation: how it may inform our understanding both of Plato and of his predecessors and successors, and how its centrality accounts for the connections between argument, knowledge, and virtue in the texts McCabe examines. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: HPCA; HPJ; HPK; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 168 x 34. Weight in Grams: 764. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
M. M. McCabe presents a selection of her essays which explore the ways in which the Platonic method of conversation may inform how we understand both the Platonic dialogues and the work of his predecessors and his successors. The centrality of conversation to philosophical method is taken here to account both for how we should read the ancients and for the connections between argument, knowledge, and virtue in the texts in question. The book argues that we should attend, consequently, to the reflective dimension of reading and thought; and that this reflection explains both how we should think about the ... Read more
M. M. McCabe presents a selection of her essays which explore the ways in which the Platonic method of conversation may inform how we understand both the Platonic dialogues and the work of his predecessors and his successors. The centrality of conversation to philosophical method is taken here to account both for how we should read the ancients and for the connections between argument, knowledge, and virtue in the texts in question. The book argues that we should attend, consequently, to the reflective dimension of reading and thought; and that this reflection explains both how we should think about the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
OUP Oxford
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198732884
SKU
KSG0034496
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99-1
About Mary Margaret McCabe
Mary Margaret McCabe works on ancient philosophy, ethics, and the philosophy of medicine; she has published mostly on Plato but also on the Presocratics, on Aristotle, and on the Stoics. She was Fellow in Classics at New Hall, Cambridge, from 1981 to 1990; in 1990 she moved to King's College London, and was Professor of Ancient Philosophy there from 1998 ... Read more
Reviews for Platonic Conversations
[A] richly complex book... This collection of essays should be read by anyone interested not just in ancient philosophy, but by graduate students in other fields to show them how to think critically and, if necessary, upset the proverbial apple cart.
Clifford Cunningham, Sun News Miami
Appropriate for serious students of Plato, this book requires keen intellectual attention ... Read more
Clifford Cunningham, Sun News Miami
Appropriate for serious students of Plato, this book requires keen intellectual attention ... Read more