Vasilis Politis

The Structure of Enquiry in Plato's Early Dialogues

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Produktbeschreibung

Providing an alternative to the traditional interpretation, this book defends a radically new view of Plato's method of argument in the early dialogues, centred on dilemmas and aporiai. Offering new directions for the debate around Plato's method, it will be a valuable resource for advanced students and scholars of Plato.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9781107689961
• ISBN-10: 1107689961
• Artikelnr.: 50446180

Autorenporträt

Vasilis Politis is Head of Philosophy and Director of the Plato Centre at Trinity College Dublin. He is co-editor of The Aporetic Tradition in Ancient Philosophy (with Giorgos Karamanolis, Cambridge, 2017), and has published numerous essays in journals including Phronesis.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. The Issue of the Justification of Plato's Essentialism: 1. The raising of the ti esti question
2. How to answer the ti esti question
3. The thesis of the priority of definition
Part II. The Role of Aporia and the Root of Plato's Essentialism: 4. What are Plato's early dialogues about?
5. Whether-or-not questions and agonistic argument
6. Whether-or-not questions and the articulation of aporiai
7. Aporia-based enquiry aiming at knowledge
8. What is behind the ti esti question?
Bibliography
General index
Index of passages cited.