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The Structure of Enquiry in Plato´s Early Dialogues
Vasilis Politis
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hardcover. Offers an alternative interpretation and defends a radically new view of Plato's method of argument in the early dialogues. Num Pages: 266 pages, 2 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HPCA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 161 x 236 x 23. Weight in Grams: 538. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. Illustrated covers, no dj as issued, remains very good
This book proposes and defends a radically new account of Plato's method of argument and enquiry in his early dialogues. Vasilis Politis challenges the traditional account according to which these dialogues are basically about the demand for definitions, and questions the equally traditional view that what lies behind Plato's method of argument is a peculiar theory of knowledge. He argues that these dialogues are enquiries set in motion by dilemmas and aporiai, incorporating both a sceptical and an anti-sceptical dimension, and he contends that Plato introduces the demand for definitions, and the search for essences, precisely in order to avoid ... Read more
This book proposes and defends a radically new account of Plato's method of argument and enquiry in his early dialogues. Vasilis Politis challenges the traditional account according to which these dialogues are basically about the demand for definitions, and questions the equally traditional view that what lies behind Plato's method of argument is a peculiar theory of knowledge. He argues that these dialogues are enquiries set in motion by dilemmas and aporiai, incorporating both a sceptical and an anti-sceptical dimension, and he contends that Plato introduces the demand for definitions, and the search for essences, precisely in order to avoid ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
266
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107068117
SKU
KSG0034566
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Ref
99-1
About Vasilis Politis
Vasilis Politis is Head of Philosophy and Director of the Plato Centre at Trinity College Dublin. He is co-editor of The Aporetic Tradition in Ancient Philosophy (with Giorgos Karamanolis, Cambridge, 2017), and has published numerous essays in journals including Phronesis.
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