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Acknowledgments Although this book was written only with the encouragement and support of numerous friends, colleagues, and students, I wish to make known the exceptional gratitude I feel toward a few individuals. I wish to thank my colleagues in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Oregon for supporting my research and affirming its importance. I also wish to thank Rob Metcalf, Alejandro Vallega, and Melissa Shew, each of whom took the time to read early drafts of the book with care, returning to me many helpful suggestions and comments. I am especially appreciative of the honesty they all brought to this task. I owe an immeasurable debt to Walter Brogan and also to John Sallis, both of whom, each in his own way, first introduced me to the world of reading a different Plato. I am honored to have benefited from the consistent encouragement, generous advice, and wondrous insight of these two men. I also feel a special gratitude toward Jena Jolissaint and Melissa Shew, founders of the “Oregon Plato club.” This book has been greatly affected by the hours I spent reading and discussing the dialogues with these devoted and impassioned students of Plato. To Steph and Zoe I wish to say that your loving patience with my philosophical obsessions is truly marvelous. I am thankful both for the time and space you have given me to work and for your gentle and kind words of reassurance. P.W. Eugene, November 2004 xix ...

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