Plato and the Elements of Dialogue

John H. Fritz (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

206 Seiten

2015
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-1204-6 (ISBN)

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Plato and the Elements of Dialogue examines Plato’s use of the three necessary elements of dialogue: character, time, and place. By identifying and taking up striking employments of these features from throughout Plato’s work, this book seeks to map their functions and importance. By focusing on the Symposium, Cratylus, and Republic, this book shows three ways that characters can be related to what they do and what they say. Next, the book takes up ‘displacement’ by focusing on the Hippias Major, arguing that individual characters can be expanded by the repeated practice of asking them to consider a question from a point of view other than their own. This ties into the treatments of ‘thinking’ in the Theaetetus and Sophist. The Parmenides, Lysis, and Philebus are examined to come to a better understanding of the functions of the settings (times/places) of Plato’s dialogues, while a reading of the beginning of the of the Phaedo shows how Plato can expand the settings of the dialogues by using ‘frames’ in order to direct his readers. Last, this book takes up the ‘critique of writing’ that closes the Phaedrus.

John H. Fritz teaches philosophy at Duquesne University.

Chapter One Introduction
Chapter Two Character
Chapter Three Definite Time in the Parmenides
Chapter Four Definite Place in the Lysis
Chapter Five The Indefinite Time and Place of the Philebus
Chapter Six Plato’s Use of Frames
Chapter Seven Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	13.11.2015
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 239 mm
Gewicht	445 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
ISBN-10	1-4985-1204-6 / 1498512046
ISBN-13	978-1-4985-1204-6 / 9781498512046
Zustand	Neuware