Conversation and self-sufficiency in Plato / A.G. Long.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Long, Alex, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato.

Socrates.

Self-reliant living.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (184 pages)

Other Title:

Conversation & self-sufficiency in Plato

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A. G. Long presents a new account of the importance of conversation in Plato's philosophy. He provides close studies of eight dialogues, including some of Plato's most famous works and traces the emergence of internal dialogue or self-questioning as an alternative to the Socratic conversation from which Plato starts.

Contents:

The Advantages of Conversation in the Phaedrus

Conversation and Confirmation in the Protagoras

Socrates' Housemate in the Hippias Major

Consolation and Self-Sufficiency in the Phaedo

Representing Opponents in the Republic

Internal Dialogue in the Theaetetus and Sophist

Foreign Practices and Perspectives in the Laws.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on Apr. 10, 2013).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-299-39736-0

0-19-165622-4

OCLC:

835161991