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Argument and Performance: Alcibiades' Behavior in the Symposium and Plato's Analysis in the Laws
2017
Peitho Examina Antiqua
Argument and literary form, and how they both relate to each other, are crucial aspects of any interpretation of the Platonic dialogues. Plato the author and Plato the philosopher always work hand in hand in that Plato the author tries to serve Plato the philosopher. It is, therefore, an appropriate principle for approaching the study of Plato's philosophy to take into account the literary aspects of the dialogues and to ask how Plato's literary art of writing could possibly support his
doi:10.14746/peitho.2017.12226
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