Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-270) and indexes.
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Why Plato wrote dialogues -- Refutation and irony : preparing the ground -- Recollection and example : sowing the seeds -- Love and philosophy : nourishing the growth -- Dialectic and logos : training the shoots -- The good and the beautiful : reaping the fruits -- Appendix: How to read a Platonic dialogue : sunousia in the Theaetetus.
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Philosopher Kenneth Sayre explores the question of why Plato wrote in dialogue form and offers analyses of key dialogues such as the Meno, the Symposium, and the Theaetetus.--Adapted from publisher description.