Hans-Georg Gadamer ; translated and with an introd. by P. Christopher Smith.
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New Haven, CT :
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Yale University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1980.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xv, 221 p. ;
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24 cm.
GENERAL NOTES
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Includes index.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Logos and ergon in Plato's Lysis -- The proofs of immortality in Plato's Phaedo -- Plato and the poets -- Plato's educational state -- Dialectic and sophism in Plato's Seventh Letter -- Plato's unwritten dialectic -- Idea and reality in Plato's Timareus -- Amicus Plato Magis Amica Veritas.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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The author approaches Plato's dialogues as live discussions in which the concrete concerns of the participants define the horizons of discourse. He takes up such perplexing problems of Plato's though as the role of poetry in the state and the theory of ideal numbers and brings to them a fresh understanding. With its emphasis on the dialogue form and the dramatic situation, this work complements the main tendencies of the analytical tradition which dominates contemporary Anglo-Saxon writing on Plato.