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Plato's Literary Garden : How to Read a Platonic Dialogue by Kenneth M. Sayre...

Description: Plato's dialogues are universally acknowledged as standing among the masterworks of the Western philosophic tradition. What most readers do not know, however, is that Plato also authored a public letter in which he unequivocally denies ever having written a work of philosophy. If Plato did not view his written dialogues as works of philosophy, how did he conceive them, and how should readers view them? In Plato's Literary Garden , Kenneth M. Sayre brings over thirty years of Platonic scholarship to bear on these questions, arguing that Plato did not intend the dialogues to serve as repositories of philosophic doctrine, but instead composed them as teaching instruments.

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Number of Pages: 318 Pages

Publication Name: Plato's Literary Garden : How to Read a Platonic Dialogue

Language: English

Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press

Publication Year: 1995

Subject: History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, General, Criticism, Movements / Critical Theory

Item Height: 0.8 in

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 12.3 Oz

Item Length: 9 in

Author: Kenneth M. Sayre

Subject Area: Philosophy

Item Width: 6 in

Format: Hardcover

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