Dialectic and Dialogue

Plato's Practice of Philosophical Inquiry
Erscheinungsjahr 1998
ISBN: 978-0-8101-1530-9
Verlag: Northwestern University Press

Buch, Englisch, 418 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy

Dialectic and Dialogue seeks to define the method and the aims of Plato's dialectic in both the "inconclusive" dialogues and the dialogues that describe and practice a method of hypothesis. Departing from most treatments of Plato, Gonzalez argues that the philosophical knowledge at which dialectic aims is nonpropositional, practical, and reflexive. The result is a reassessment of how Plato understood the nature of philosophy.

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
1. Introduction: The Need for a Reexamination of Plato's Dialectic

Part I: Dialectic in Between Ordinary and Sophistic Discourse
2. Dialectic at Work in the Laches and the Charmides
3. The Cratylus on the Use of Words
4. Dialectic and Eristic in the Euthydemus
5. Philosophical Imitation

Part II: The Method of Hypothesis
6. Failed Virtue and Failed Knowledge in the Meno
7. A Second Sailing in the Phaedo
8. Idealization and the Destruction of Hypotheses in the Republic
9. Conclusion: Dialectic in the Seventh Letter

Notes
Works Cited
Index