Platonic conversations / Mary Margaret McCabe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCabe, Mary Margaret, 1948- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato--Criticism and interpretation.

Plato.

Platonists.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

x, 402 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Summary:

Mary Margaret McCabe presents a new collection of papers, discussing a range of ancient philosophers, but focusing on 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Platonic Conversations 1

I On Dialectic and Method

2 Heraclitus and the Art of Paradox 35

3 The Moving Posset Stands Still: Heraclitus Fr. 125 65

4 Parmenides1 Dilemma 73

5 Myth, Allegory, and Argument in Plato 83

6 Is Dialectic as Dialectic Does? 100

7 Does Your Plato Bite? 125

8 Unity in the Parmenides: The Unity of the Parmenides 138

II On Knowledge and Virtue in Plato

9 Looking Inside Charmides' Cloak 173

10 Escaping One's Own Notice Knowing: Meno's Paradox Again 190

11 From the Cradle to the Cave: What Happened to Self-Knowledge in the Republic? 208

12 Indifference Readings: Plato and the Stoa on Socratic Ethics 228

13 Out of the Labyrinth: Plato's Attack on Consequentialism 258

III On Aristotle's Conversations with Plato

14 Perceiving that We See and Hear: Aristotle on Plato on Judgement and Reflection 283

15 Some Conversations with Plato: Aristotle, Metaphysics Z. 13-16 310

16 With Mirrors or Without? Self-Perception in Eudemian Ethics vii. 12 340.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-377) and indexes.

ISBN:

9780198732884

0198732880

OCLC:

913617227