HOW TO READ A PLATONIC DIALOGUE
Abstract
In this essay, I explain and clarify Jacob Klein’s significant yet difficult account of how to read a Platonic dialogue. I argue that Klein takes Plato’s dialogues to be discursively incomplete dramas that the audience is asked to make whole by its participation. A Platonic dialogue thus comes into being only when readers or auditors examine the arguments and themselves.
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2022-12-15
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