Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-377) and indexes.
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Platonic conversations -- On dialectic and method. Heraclitus and the art of paradox ; The moving posset stands still : Heraclitus Fr. 125 ; Parmenides' dilemma ; Myth, allegory, and argument in Plato ; Is dialectic as dialectic does? ; Does your Plato bite? ; Unity in the Parmenides : the unity of the Parmenides -- On knowledge and virtue in Plato. Looking inside Charmides' cloak ; Escaping one's own notice knowing : Meno's paradox again ; From the cradle to the cave : what happened to self-knowledge in the Republic? ; Indifference readings : Plato and the stoa on Socratic ethics ; Out of the labyrinth : Plato's attack on consequentialism -- On Aristotle's conversations with Plato. Perceiving that we see and hear : Aristotle on Plato on judgement and reflection ; Some conversations with Plato : Aristotle, Metaphysics Z. 13-16 ; With mirrors or without? : self-perception in Eudemian ethics vii. 12.
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M.M. McCabe presents a selection of her essays which explore the ways in which the Platonic method of conversation may inform how we understand both the Platonic dialogues and the work of his predecessors and his successors. The centrality of conversation to philosophical method is taken here to account both for how we should read the ancients and for the connections between argument, knowledge, and virtue in the texts in question. The book argues that we should attend, consequently, to the reflective dimension of reading and thought; and that this reflection explains both how we should think about the conditions for perception and knowledge, and how those conditions, in turn, inform the theories of value of both Plato and Aristotle--