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Platonic
Questions Dialogues with the Silent Philosopher
Diskin
Clay
October 2000 | 6 x 9 inches
Philosophy - Greek
Hardback: $57.00 SH
ISBN: 978-0-271-02043-3
Paperback: $24.00 SH
ISBN: 978-0-271-03003-6
The
dialogue has disappeared as a mode of writing philosophy, and philosophers
who study Plato today often ignore the form in which Plato's work
appears in favor of reconstructing and analyzing arguments thought
to be conveyed by the content of the dialogues. A distinguished classicist
here offers an approach to understanding Plato that tries to do full
justice to the form of Platonic philosophy, appreciated against the
background of Greek literature and history, while also giving proper
due to the important philosophic content of the dialogues.
The book deals in turn with Plato's relation to and portraits of
Socrates, the literary and philosophical character of the dialogues
(including the problems of interpreting a philosopher who never
speaks in his own name), and the modes of argumentation employed
in the dialogues as well as some of their major themes.
Diskin
Clay is R. J. R. Nabisco Professor of Classical Studies at
Duke University. His previous books include Paradosis and Survival:
Three Chapters in the History of Epicurean Philosophy (Michigan,
1990) and Four Island Utopias: Plato's Atlantis, Euhemeros of Messene's
Panchaia, Iamboulos' Island of the Sun, & Francis Bacon's New Atlantis, with Andrea Lee Purvis (FOCUS Philosophical Library, 1999).
