Platonic Conversations

by Mary Margaret McCabe

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198732880
• ISBN13: 9780198732884
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.2"