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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 conditions for perception and knowledge, and how those conditions, in turn, inform the theories of value of both Plato and Aristotle.
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
KTS0038203
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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 to 2014. She has spent extended periods in the USA (at Princeton, Harvard, and elsewhere) and will be the 2016-7 Sather Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, delivering the Sather lectures. She is much engaged with the nature and future of the universities, and of philosophy in the universities; she was President of the British Philosophical Association from 2009 to 2012, and will be the President of the Mind Association in 2016-7.
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 the effort is rewarded by extraordinary insights into the genius of Plato's dialogues. Excellent bibliography and index. Highly recommended.
P. A. Streveler, CHOICE
This is a book from which anyone tempted to pick up their Plato and wrestle with him will greatly profit.
Malcolm Schofield, MindMalcolm Schofield, Mind
Clifford Cunningham, Sun News Miami
Appropriate for serious students of Plato, this book requires keen intellectual attention the effort is rewarded by extraordinary insights into the genius of Plato's dialogues. Excellent bibliography and index. Highly recommended.
P. A. Streveler, CHOICE
This is a book from which anyone tempted to pick up their Plato and wrestle with him will greatly profit.
Malcolm Schofield, MindMalcolm Schofield, Mind