In this Book
- Plato's Literary Garden: How to Read a Platonic Dialogue
- Book
- 2002
- Published by: University of Notre Dame Press
summary
Plato's dialogues are universally acknowledged as standing among the masterworks of the Western philosophic tradition. What most readers do not know, however, is that Plato also authored a public letter in which he unequivocally denies ever having written a work of philosophy. If Plato did not view his written dialogues as works of philosophy, how did he conceive them, and how should readers view them? In Plato's Literary Garden, Kenneth M. Sayre brings over thirty years of Platonic scholarship to bear on these questions, arguing that Plato did not intend the dialogues to serve as repositories of philosophic doctrine, but instead composed them as teaching instruments.
Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- pp. xi-xxiv
- Bibliography
- pp. 267-270
- Index of Passages Cited
- pp. 271-284
- Index of Names
- pp. 285-288
- General Index
- pp. 289-292
Additional Information
ISBN
9780268089658
Related ISBN(s)
9780268038083, 9780268038762
MARC Record
OCLC
966821608
Pages
320
Launched on MUSE
2017-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2002