Plato and the Art of Philosophical Writing

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ID19911409
AuthorsChristopher Rowe (0000-0001-6624-8197, Durham University, corresponding author)
Year2007
Publication date2007-11-22
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenuePlato and the Art of Philosophical Writing (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511482625
OpenAlexW1596700993
Open LibraryOL34438258M
ISBN9780511482625
LanguageEN
Citations received32
References cited8

Plato's dialogues are usually understood as simple examples of philosophy in action. In this book Professor Rowe treats them rather as literary-philosophical artefacts, shaped by Plato's desire to persuade his readers to exchange their view of life and the universe for a different view which, from their present perspective, they will barely begin to comprehend. What emerges is a radically new Plato: a Socratic throughout, who even in the late dialogues is still essentially the Plato (and the Socrates) of the Apology and the so-called 'Socratic' dialogues. This book aims to understand Plato both as a philosopher and as a writer, on the assumption that neither of these aspects of the dialogues can be understood without the other. The argument of the book is closely based in Plato's text, but should be accessible to any serious reader of Plato, whether professional philosopher, classicist, or student

Action (physics) · Argument (complex analysis) · Art · Epistemology · Literature · Perspective (graphical) · ROWE · Simple (philosophy) · SOCRATES · Socratic method · Chemistry · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought · Plato

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