Plato's Literary Garden

How to Read a Platonic Dialogue

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Kenneth M. Sayre

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Plato's dialogues are universally acknowledged as standing among the masterworks of the Western philosophic tradition. What most readers do not know, however, is that Plato also authored a public letter in which he unequivocally denies ever having written a work of philosophy. If Plato did not view his written dialogues as works of philosophy, how did he conceive them, and how should readers view them? In Plato's Literary Garden, Kenneth M. Sayre brings over thirty years of Platonic scholarship to bear on these questions, arguing that Plato did not intend the dialogues to serve as repositories of philosophic doctrine, but instead composed them as teaching instruments.

Author Biography:

>Kenneth M. Sayre is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame and the author of many books and articles, including Plato's Analytic Method and Plato's Late Ontology.

Release date NZ

January 10th, 2002

Author

Kenneth M. Sayre

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

318

Dimensions

152x229x17

ISBN-13

9780268038762

Product ID

6913667

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