Form and Argument in Late Plato
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Why did Plato put his philosophical arguments into dialogues, rather than presenting them in a plain and readily understandable fashion? A group of distinguished scholars here offer answers to this question by studying the relation between form and argument in his late dialogues. These penetrating studies show that the literary structure of the dialogues is of vital importance in the ongoing interpretation of Plato.
Mary Margaret McCabe
Mary Margaret McCabe was Leventis Visiting Professor in Classics at the University of Edinburgh 2019, is Professor of Ancient Philosophy Emerita at King's College London, and a Fellow of the British Academy. She was co-conspirator with Verity Harte on the Yale-KCL Republic project 2007-16. She is proudest of being the recipient of Harte and Woolf, Re-Reading Ancient Philosophy: Old Chestnuts and Sacred Cows (CUP 2017). She is the Chair of Trustees of Philosophy in Prison, www.philosophyinprison.com
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