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O’Brien, Carl S. "Platonic Dialogues and Platonic Principles." International Journal of the Platonic Tradition 15, no. 1 (2021): 90–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18725473-12341490.

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Wolfsdorf, D. "The historical reader of Plato's Protagoras." Classical Quarterly 48, no. 1 (1998): 126–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cq/48.1.126.

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The popular question why Plato wrote dramatic dialogues, which is motivated by a just fascination and perplexity for contemporary scholars about the unique form of the Platonic texts, is confused and anachronistic; for it judges the Platonic texts qua philosophical texts in terms of post–Platonic texts not written in dramatic dialogic form. In comparison with these, the form of Platos early aporetic dialogues is highly unusual. Yet, in its contemporary milieu, the form of Platonic literature is relatively normal. Dramatic dialogue was the most popular form of Attic literature in the late fifth

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Kenyon, Erik. "Platonic Pedagogy in Augustine’s Dialogues." Ancient Philosophy 34, no. 1 (2014): 151–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/ancientphil20143419.

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Michelini, Ann N. "THE STRUCTURE OF PLATONIC DIALOGUES." Classical Review 52, no. 2 (2002): 251–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cr/52.2.251.

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Griswold, Charles L. "Irony in the Platonic Dialogues." Philosophy and Literature 26, no. 1 (2002): 84–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/phl.2002.0012.

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Osborne, Catherine. "Socrates in the Platonic Dialogues." Philosophical Investigations 29, no. 1 (2006): 1–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9205.2006.00272.x.

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McCoy, Marina. "Perspectivism and the philosophical rhetoric of the dialogue form." PLATO JOURNAL 16 (July 5, 2017): 49–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/2183-4105_16_5.

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In this paper, I support the perspectivist reading of the Platonic dialogues. The dialogues assert an objective truth toward which we are meant to strive, and yet acknowledge that we as seekers of this truth are always partial in what we grasp of its nature. They are written in a way to encourage the development of philosophical practice in their readers, where “philosophical” means not only having an epistemic state in between the total possession of truth and its absence, but also growing in selfknowledge as being that kind of a being. I take up three particular qualities of the dialogue: th

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Press, Gerald A. "The Play of the Platonic Dialogues." Ancient Philosophy 18, no. 2 (1998): 477–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/ancientphil199818243.

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Lönborg, Sven. "The Chronology of the Platonic Dialogues." Theoria 5, no. 2 (2008): 141–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-2567.1939.tb00451.x.

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Goncharko, Oksana, and Dmitry Goncharko. "The Dialogue On Aristotle Categories by Porphyry as a Platonic Dialogue." ΣΧΟΛΗ. Ancient Philosophy and the Classical Tradition 13, no. 1 (2019): 83–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/1995-4328-2019-13-1-83-93.

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The paper focuses on interactive dialogue-form strategies in the framework of the late antique Greek and early Byzantine logical traditions. The dialogue by Porphyry On Aristotle Categories is a perfect example of the Neoplatonic approach to build logic in a Plato style. The main protagonistresses of the dialogue are The Question and The Answer, who act as collocutors do in traditional Platonic dialogues. It is proposed to consider the dialogue in the context of three perspectives: in accordance with the tradition of the Platonic dialogue; in the light of Aristotle’s education system; in its r

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Hyland, Drew A. "Heidegger’s (Dramatic?) Dialogues." Research in Phenomenology 45, no. 3 (2015): 341–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15691640-12341316.

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Taking my cue from the richly dramatic character of the Platonic dialogues and how that dramatic character informs the thought therein, I attempt a reading of Heidegger’s dialogue on a country path that takes similar account of the dramatic themes of that dialogue. Accordingly, I address such themes as the fact that the characters of the dialogue are not given personal names, the fact that it is and must be a dialogue that occurs on a country path, and the strange interactions of the three characters. The paper culminates in a discussion of the role of “night,” which, I argue, functions as our

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Tarrant, Harold. "On Hastily Declaring Platonic Dialogues Spurious: the Case of Critias." Méthexis 31, no. 1 (2019): 47–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24680974-03101003.

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This paper takes issue with the thesis of Rashed and Auffret that the Critias that has come down to us is not a genuine dialogue of Plato. Authors do not consider the style of the Critias, which should be a factor in any complete study of authorship. It observes the widespread consensus that the style of the Timaeus and Critias are virtually inseparable. It surveys a wide range of stylistic studies that have tended to confirm this, before answering a possible objection that cites the similarity of style between the genuine Laws and Philip of Opus’ Epinomis. Since the main argument used by Rash

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Bobonich, Chris, and Diskin Clay. "Platonic Questions: Dialogues with the Silent Philosopher." Philosophical Review 111, no. 2 (2002): 297. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3182632.

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Dybikowski, J. "Finitude and Transcendence in the Platonic Dialogues." Ancient Philosophy 16, no. 2 (1996): 481–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/ancientphil199616256.

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Tejera, V. "Finitude and Transcendence in the Platonic Dialogues." International Studies in Philosophy 31, no. 2 (1999): 149–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/intstudphil199931242.

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GERSON, LLOYD P. "DEFINITION AND ESSENCE IN THE PLATONIC DIALOGUES." Méthexis 19, no. 1 (2006): 21–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24680974-90000491.

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Bobonich, C. "Platonic Questions: Dialogues with the Silent Philosopher." Philosophical Review 111, no. 2 (2002): 297–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00318108-111-2-297.

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Filler, Elad. "Platonic and Stoic Dialectic in Philo." Elenchos 37, no. 1-2 (2016): 181–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/elen-2016-371-208.

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Abstract In this paper, dealing with Platonic and Stoic dialectic in Philo, I wish to make a proposal that may offer some solution to the problem of the surprising absence of a proper use of the dialectic of the late Platonic dialogues in Philo’s works. Philonic scholars have not, to the best of my knowledge, raised this question; but Philo’s very rare allusions to Plato’s later dialogues were noted in David T. Runia’s comprehensive study on Philo and Plato’s Timaeus.

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Rheins, Jason G. "The Arrangement of the Platonic Corpus in the Newly Published Compendiosa Expositio Attributed to Apuleius of Madaura." Phronesis 62, no. 4 (2017): 377–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685284-12341333.

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Abstract The Middle Platonist Compendiosa Expositio gives dialogue-by-dialogue summaries of doctrines allegedly expounded in Plato’s works. According to Justin Stover, the principle of division used by the work for arranging Plato’s dialogues is the dominant philosophical influence in each case. I argue that there is no principle of division, and that the dialogues are arranged, not on the basis of influence, but according to their main speaker. One thing this allows, I suggest, is for the author of the ce to assert the dependence of the Stoics on Plato.

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Proimos, Constantinos V. "The Politics of Mimesis in the Platonic Dialogues." International Studies in Philosophy 34, no. 2 (2002): 83–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/intstudphil200234245.

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Gish, Dustin A. "Platonic Dialogues, Socratic Inquiries: A Symposium onPlato's Philosophers." Perspectives on Political Science 40, no. 4 (2011): 179–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10457097.2011.611699.

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KURKE, LESLIE. "Plato, Aesop, and the Beginnings of Mimetic Prose." Representations 94, no. 1 (2006): 6–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/rep.2006.94.1.6.

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ABSTRACT This paper traces out the lineaments of a popular Aesop tradition behind and within Plato's characterization of Socrates in his dialogues. It attempts thereby to expose the mimetic origins of philosophic prose writing (at least partly) in the lowly and abjected fabular discourse of Aesop, which Platonic dialogue strategically appropriates and disavows to constitute ““philosophy”” as an autonomous, transcendent domain of inquiry.

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Соловьёв, Роман Сергеевич. "«Euthyphron» in the System of Dialogues of Plato’s Definition." Theological Herald, no. 1(36) (March 15, 2020): 298–321. http://dx.doi.org/10.31802/2500-1450-2020-36-1-298-321.

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В данной статье автор стремится переосмыслить хронологию диалога «Евтифрон», который обычно считают ранним диалогом Платона. показав в предыдущих статьях несообразности традиционной ранней датировки диалога, автор, исходя из представления о жанровой эволюции творчества Платона, помещает диалог в число школьных, написанных на фоне составления «Законов». для подтверждения тезиса автор обращается к поздним диалогам Платона и показывает, как с точки зрения методологии (формализация определения, диэреза, математические ходы мысли) «Евтифрон» сближается с такими текстами, как «Теэтет», «Парменид», «

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Gordon, Jill. "Colloquium 4 Commentary on Hyland." Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 30, no. 1 (2015): 118–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22134417-00301p12.

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In response to, but in keeping with, Hyland’s attention to specific dramatic features of Platonic dialogues, the commentary explores the issue of temporality in these dialogues and its role in their portrayal of the philosophical life. The explicit discussion and portrayal in these dialogues of diachronic time, in particular, reveals important aspects Socrates’ practice of philosophy.

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Ross, Ronald. "A Doctor and a Scholar." Stance: an international undergraduate philosophy journal 2, no. 1 (2019): 67–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.33043/s.2.1.67-74.

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Too often critics ignore the philosophic significance of Eryximachus, the physician from Plato’s Symposium, and mistakenly dismiss Eryximachus’ presence in the text. However, this paper argues that a review of the role of medicine in the Platonic dialogues, coupled with a close reading of the Symposium’s structure and language reveals how the physician’s emphasis on love as a harmonizing force is analogous to Socrates’ emphasis on balance and harmony throughout the dialogues. Also, the description of the good physician is reflective of the way a good philosopher operates. By employing the medi

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Mickevičius, Tomas Nemunas. "HEIDEGGERIS IR PLATONAS: TIESOS SAMPRATA." Problemos 83 (January 1, 2013): 62–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/problemos.2013.0.833.

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Šiuo straipsniu įsiterpiama į diskusiją Heideggerio ir Platono filosofijų santykio nustatymo klausimu. Straipsnyje trimis pagrindiniais argumentais parodoma, kad Platono dialogų korpuse galima aptikti tokią tiesos sampratą, kuri atitinka heidegeriškąją. Parodoma, pirma, kad tiek Platonas, tiek Heideggeris panašiai aptarė klaidingos kalbos genezę bei tokios kalbos reikšmę ne-tiesai; antra, kad tiek Platonas, tiek Heideggeris tiesą supranta kaip – Heideggerio terminu tariant – nepaslėptį su jai priklausančia paslėptimi; ir, trečia, kad Platono tekstuose galima aptikti vėlyvojo Heideggerio apmąst

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Turner, John. "The Gnostic Sethians and Middle Platonism: Interpretations of the Timaeus and Parmenides." Vigiliae Christianae 60, no. 1 (2006): 9–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157007206775567898.

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AbstractOne may construe the Sethian Gnostic picture of the world and its origins as an interpretation of the biblical protology of the book of Genesis in the light of the Platonic distinction between an ideal, exemplary realm of eternal stable being and its more or less deficient earthly and changeable copy, in which the principal Platonic dialogues of reference are the Timaeus and the Parmenides. Various Sethian treatises offer us accounts of the origin and generation of both these realms; while their portrayal of the origin and deployment of the earthly realm is unmistakably influenced by t

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Rossetti, Livio. "Where Philosophy and Literature merge in the Platonic dialogues." Argumentation 6, no. 4 (1993): 433–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00155981.

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Roig Lanzillotta, Lautaro. "A Way of Salvation: Becoming Like God in Nag Hammadi." Numen 60, no. 1 (2013): 71–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685276-12341253.

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Abstract Contrary to general belief, ethical progress as a means to attain the divine and thereby achieve salvation occupies a central place in the Nag Hammadi writings. Plato’s conception of the homoiosis theo or “likeness to god” fits very well this dynamic view of man, since it optimistically claims the possibility of human development and progress. Plato’s dialogues are far from offering a univocal exposition of how this progress was fulfilled, but later Platonists show a rather systematizing tendency. The present paper provides an overview of the homoiosis theo in the Platonic dialogues a

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O'Dwyer, Shaun. "The Unacknowledged Socrates in the Works of Luce Irigaray." Hypatia 21, no. 2 (2006): 28–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2006.tb01092.x.

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In Luce Irigaray's thought, Socrates is a marginal figure compared to Plato or Hegel. However, she does identify the Socratic dialectical position as that of a ‘phallocrat’ and she does conflate Socratic and Platonic philosophy in her psychoanalytic reading of Plato in Speculum of the Other Woman. In this essay, I critically interpret both Irigaray's own texts and the Platonic dialogues in order to argue that: (1) the Socratic dialectical position is not ‘phallocratic’ by Irigaray's own understanding of the term; (2) that Socratic (early Platonic) philosophy should not be conflated with the ma

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Byrd, Miriam. "Colloquium 6: When The Middle Comes Early: Puzzles And Perplexeties In Plato’S Dialogues." Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy 28, no. 1 (2013): 187–209. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22134417-90000017.

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In this paper I focus on the problem of accounting for apparent inconsistencies between Plato’s early and middle works. Developmentalism seeks to account for these variances by differentiating a Socratic philosophy in the early dialogues from a Platonic philosophy in the middle. In opposition to this position, I propose an alternative explanation: differences between these two groups are due to Plato’s depiction and use of middle period epistemology. I argue that, in the early dialogues, Plato depicts Socrates’ use of the “summoners” described in Book 7 of the Republic, and that Plato uses Soc

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Szlezák, Thomas Alexander. "The Dokounta of the Platonic Dialectician. On Plato’s distinction between the insufficient "present discussion" and a satisfactory future one." Peitho. Examina Antiqua, no. 1(6) (February 9, 2016): 13–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/pea.2015.1.1.

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It is a recurring pattern in Plato´s dialogues that the dialectician leads the discussion to a certain point where he identifies further, more fundamental problems, on which he claims to have his own view (to emoi dokoun, vel sim.), which he does not communicate. Such passages are briefly analyzed from five dialogues (Timaeus, Sophist, Politicus, Parmenides, Republic). It is shown that this seemingly strange behaviour of the dialectician corresponds exactly to the way a philosopher should behave according to the Phaedrus. The recurring cases of reticence of the leading figure in dialogue have

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Wallach, John R. "THE PLATONIC ACADEMY AND DEMOCRACY." Polis 19, no. 1-2 (2002): 7–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/20512996-019-01-90000004.

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From the days of Plato's Academy, academic life and discourse have operated in tension with political life, and often the political life of democracy. Since World War II, this tension has been read as essentially antagonistic. In this survey of the relationship of the original and subsequent incarnations of the Academy to ancient Athens, republican Rome, and the Florentine city-state, it becomes clear that the tension was, in fact, potentially as much of an asset to democracy as an assault upon it—even as the tension forever remained real. Readings of Plato and vers ions of the Academy become

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Wallach, John R. "The Platonic Academy and Democracy." Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought 19, no. 1-2 (2002): 7–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/20512996-90000037.

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From the days of Plato’s Academy, academic life and discourse have operated in tension with political life, and often the political life of democracy. Since World War II, this tension has been read as essentially antagonistic. In this survey of the relationship of the original and subsequent incarnations of the Academy to ancient Athens, republican Rome, and the Florentine city-state, it becomes clear that the tension was, in fact, potentially as much of an asset to democracy as an assault upon it—even as the tension forever remained real. Readings of Plato and versions of the Academy become a

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Соловьёв, Роман Сергеевич. "On the Relative Chronology of the Dialogues “Euthyphron” and “Protagoras”." Theological Herald, no. 2(33) (June 15, 2019): 239–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.31802/2500-1450-2019-33-152-164.

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В статье рассматривается проблема датировки двух диалогов Платона: «Евтифрона» и «Протагора», которые традиционно относятся к числу ранних произведений автора. На основании анализа жанра, различия образа Сократа, особенностей трактовки понятия «благочестие», а также сопоставления с другими произведениями платоновского корпуса автор приходит к выводу, что исследуемые произведения не могли быть написаны одновременно, а именно: «Протагор» относится к ранним произведениям Платона, а «Евтифрон», вероятно, является поздним произведением платоновского корпуса. The article discusses the problem of dat

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Motta, Anna. "Plato and ‘the Birdhunters’: The Controversial Legacy of an Elusive Swan." Peitho. Examina Antiqua, no. 1(6) (February 9, 2016): 93–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/pea.2015.1.6.

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The aim of this paper is to discuss some features of the doctrines of the agrapha dogmata in Neoplatonism, starting from the reading of an anecdote, presented in the Anonymous Prolegomena to Platonic Philosophy, in which Plato dreams that close to death he becomes a swan which hunters are unable to catch. In fact, the dream is an explanation of the development of the Platonic tradition, and, more precisely, it presents a story of several exegetical disagreements that have survived till the present day. Compared to modern interpretation of the Aristotelic testimony on the “so-called unwritten d

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Terezis, Christos, and Lydia Petridou. "The metaphysical “monistic” approach of the Platonic Timaeus by the Neo-Platonist Proclus." Journal of Ancient Philosophy 14, no. 1 (2020): 116–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/issn.1981-9471.v14i1p116-160.

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In this article, we focus on Proclus' commentary on Plato's Timaeus (30a3-6) about how the divine Demiurge intervenes in matter. It is an interesting extract due to the fact that Proclus manages to combine philosophical perspective with theological interpretation and scientific analysis. In the six chapters of the article, we present the theory on dualism established by the representatives of Middle Platonism, we approach the question of the production of the corporeal hypostases, we examine limit and unlimited as productive powers, we explain production in the sense of co-production as well a

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Palumbo, Lidia. "I dialoghi di Platone come figure della coerenza tra pensiero e vita." Rhetorica 37, no. 4 (2019): 333–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/rh.2019.37.4.333.

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The aim of this paper is to show how the dialogical form is an essential structure of the Platonic texts in which the interrogative form is the very form of philosophy. According to the intentio auctoris, the dialogues can change the lives of their readers and this can only happen thanks to the readers' internalization of the dialogical form as an interrogative structure. Like Socrates' interlocutors in the dialogues, readers with the dialogues, can change their live making it coherent with their own thoughts examined through the philosophical discourse. This form of coherence is the only poss

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Castagnoli, Luca. "Philosophy." Greece and Rome 64, no. 2 (2017): 207–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0017383517000134.

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As A. K. Cotton acknowledges at the beginning of her monograph Platonic Dialogue and the Education of the Reader, ‘the idea that a reader's relationship with Plato's text is analogous to that of the respondent with the discussion leader’ within the dialogue, and ‘that we engage in a dialogue with the text almost parallel to theirs’, ‘is almost a commonplace of Platonic criticism’ (4). But Cotton has the merit of articulating this commonplace much more clearly and precisely than is often done, and of asking how exactly the dialogue between interlocutors is supposed to affect the dialogue of the

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Tomin, Julius. "Dating of the Phaedrus and Interpretation of Plato." Antichthon 22 (1988): 26–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0066477400003609.

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Two hundred years ago, at the very dawn of modern Platonic studies, W.G. Tennemann built his System of Platonic Philosophy around the assumption that the Phaedrus belongs to Plato’s later works. His name and his opus may have been forgotten, yet the shadow of his picture of Plato still hangs over current interpretations. For example, it was he who excised the historical Socrates from the dialogue and deprived of its Socratic character the discussion of the relative merits of the spoken and the written word. In the dialogue the spoken word is a proper vehicle for philosophy, for moral and intel

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Eckert, Maureen. "This Site is Under Construction: Situating Hegel's Plato." Hegel Bulletin 27, no. 1-2 (2006): 1–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0263523200007515.

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In this paper, I examine broad features of Hegel's interpretation of Plato from his Lectures on the History of Phihsophy, noting how these features resonate with current views of Platonic philosophy. Hegel formed his interpretation of Plato under very different circumstances than those of today. Serious study of the Platonic dialogues had come to the forefront in German Idealist philosophy. As Rüdiger Bubner notes: ‘It was this tradition of thought that discovered, in an original way of its own, the authentic Plato in place of the various mediated substitutes of before, and indeed saw him as a

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Von Uexküll, Jakob, Thure Von Uexküll, and Edgar Vögel. "The Eternal Question: Biological variations on a Platonic dialogue." Sign Systems Studies 32, no. 1/2 (2004): 329–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/sss.2004.32.1-2.15.

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The reinterpretation of Nature by biology, which will prevail in spite of all obstacles, has brought our thinking closer to antiquity, giving us the chance to reinvigorate our perused terminology with the help of the resources to be found in the thoughts of the greatest minds of mankind. The way to Plato thus being cleared, I perceived the idea to seek enlightenment on pressing biological questions from the great Sage. As means to this end, I chose to make Socrates continue one of his dialogues, with the adjustment of giving him the knowledge of our contemporary biological problems. Thus some

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Prior, William J. "The Historicity of Plato’s Apology." Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought 18, no. 1-2 (2001): 41–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/20512996-90000031.

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Scholars who seek in Plato’s early dialogues an accurate account of the philosophy of the historical Socrates place special weight on the Apology as a source of historical information about him. Even scholars like Charles Kahn, who generally reject this historicist approach to the early dialogues, accept the Apology as a ‘quasi-historical’ document. In this paper I attempt to raise doubts about the historical reliability of the Apology. I argue that the claims used to support the historicity of the Apology (that it was composed close to the trial, that Plato was an eyewitness, and that the lar

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Basili, Cristina. "After Sócrates. Leo Strauss and the Esoteric Irony." Anales del Seminario de Historia de la Filosofía 37, no. 3 (2020): 473–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.5209/ashf.69785.

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Throughout the philosophical tradition that stems from Plato, Socratic irony has represented an enigma that all interpreters of the Platonic dialogues have had to face from different points of view. In this article I aim to present the peculiar Straussian reading of Socratic irony. According to Leo Strauss, Socratic irony is a key element of Plato’s political philosophy, linked to the «logographic necessity» that rules his texts. I will therefore examine the genesis and the main features of Straussian hermeneutics. I will end the article by highlighting the relevance of the esoteric interpreta

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Vasilakis, Dimitrios. "From Writing to Philosophizing: A Lesson from Platonic Hermeneutics for the Methodology of the History of Philosophy." Conatus 5, no. 2 (2020): 133. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/cjp.23490.

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In this paper, I try to exploit some lessons drawn from reading Plato in order to comment on the methodological ‘meta-level’ regarding the relation between philosophizing and writing. After all, it is due to the medium of written word that we come to know past philosophers. I do this on the occasion of the ostensible conclusion in Plato’s Meno. This example illuminates the ‘double-dialogue’ hermeneutics of Plato and helps to differentiate Plato’s dialogues from dialogical works written by other philosophers, such as Berkeley. As a result, it becomes clear that, like with Plato’s case, a histor

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Tarrant, H. A. S. "Myth as a Tool of Persuasion in Plato." Antichthon 24 (1990): 19–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0066477400000514.

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Much is said in the text-books about Plato’s hankering after answers to moral questions which would offer scientific accuracy and absolute truth. It is to dialectic it seems that Plato turns in the hope of finding such accuracy. The Republic values Platonic dialectic rather higher than mathematical procedures, if only because the mathematician fails to explain the ultimate terms through which he conducts his inquiry. But the epistemologica! status of mathematics is at least as high as that of physical inquiry, whereas it is certainly higher than that of all this-worldly images. The images of t

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Соловьёв, Роман Сергеевич. "Methods for Establishing a Chronology of Dialogues in Corpus Platonicum." Theological Herald, no. 4(39) (December 15, 2020): 279–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.31802/gb.2020.39.4.016.

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В статье автор критически рассматривает методы установления хронологии диалогов платоновского корпуса. Описав античные методы организации корпуса (каноны Аристофана Византийского и Трасилла), автор показал, что принцип организации диалогов - сюжетно-смысловой, а не хронологический. Далее разбираются основные методы определения хронологии, а именно: анализ литературной формы, анализ философского содержания, внешние и внутренние свидетельства, данные стилометрического анализа. Указав на субъективность оценок литературных свойств диалогов, порочность подхода, исходящего из априорного представлени

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Moore, Kenneth Royce. "Erôs, Hybris and Mania: Love and Desire in Plato’s Laws and Beyond." Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought 24, no. 1 (2007): 112–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/20512996-90000110.

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The themes of hybris, erôs and mania are interconnected in Plato’s final opus, the Laws, regarding his narrator’s construction of sexually accepted norms for his ‘second-best’, utopian society. This article examines this formulation, its psychological characteristics and philosophical underpinnings. The role and function of his social programme are considered in the context of the Laws and the hypothetical polis outlined therein. However, this particular formulation is not a new development in later Platonic thought. It is, rather, a logical extension of earlier Platonic ideas, expressed in a

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Sajdek, Wiesława. "Recalling of Recalling. Platonic Doctrine of Anamnesis." Philosophical Discourses 1 (2019): 157–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.16926/pd.2019.01.10.

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The objective of the article is to recall the European philosophical basis of the philosophical culture, inextricably connected with ancient Greece and its language. Plato’s philosophy is in the very core of the culture and its salient component is the doctrine of anamnesis. The elements of the doctrine are dispersed in numerous dialogues, particularly in Meno, Phaedo, Phaedrus, therefore they are given more attention. Platonic reflection on anamnesis is related to his view on the soul whose development is associated with the process of cognizing, being essentially tantamount to recalling of w

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Robertson, David. "Plato on Conversation and Experience." Philosophy 84, no. 3 (2009): 355–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0031819109000369.

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AbstractPlato's dialogues show discourse strategies beyond purely intellectual methods of persuasion. The usual assumption is that linguistic understanding depends on a match of inner experiences. This is partly explained by an underlying engagement with the historical Gorgias on discourse and psychology, as well as Parmenides on philosophical logos. In the Gorgias and the Symposium, speakers cannot understand alien experiences by philosophical conversation alone. There is no developed alternative model of understanding in the Platonic dialogues. The difficulties in bringing ‘philistine souls’

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