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The Structure of Enquiry in Plato's Early Dialogues

Offers an alternative interpretation and defends a radically new view of Plato's method of argument in the early dialogues.

Vasilis Politis (Author)

9781107068117, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 28 May 2015

266 pages

23.7 x 15.8 x 2.2 cm, 0.54 kg

This book proposes and defends a radically new account of Plato's method of argument and enquiry in his early dialogues. Vasilis Politis challenges the traditional account according to which these dialogues are basically about the demand for definitions, and questions the equally traditional view that what lies behind Plato's method of argument is a peculiar theory of knowledge. He argues that these dialogues are enquiries set in motion by dilemmas and aporiai, incorporating both a sceptical and an anti-sceptical dimension, and he contends that Plato introduces the demand for definitions, and the search for essences, precisely in order to avoid a sceptical]

The Structure of Enquiry in Plato's Early Dialogues Politis Hardback

The Structure of Enquiry in Plato's Early Dialogues

Offers an alternative interpretation and defends a radically new view of Plato's method of argument in the early dialogues.

Vasilis Politis (Author)

9781107068117, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 28 May 2015

266 pages

23.7 x 15.8 x 2.2 cm, 0.54 kg

This book proposes and defends a radically new account of Plato's method of argument and enquiry in his early dialogues. Vasilis Politis challenges the traditional account according to which these dialogues are basically about the demand for definitions, and questions the equally traditional view that what lies behind Plato's method of argument is a peculiar theory of knowledge. He argues that these dialogues are enquiries set in motion by dilemmas and aporiai, incorporating both a sceptical and an anti-sceptical dimension, and he contends that Plato introduces the demand for definitions, and the search for essences, precisely in order to avoid a sceptical]

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