Dialectical methods and the stoicheia paradigm in Plato’s trilogy and Philebus
Plato’s Theaetetus, Sophist, and Statesman exhibit several related dialectical methods relevant to Platonic education: maieutic in Theaetetus, bifurcatory division in Sophist and Statesman, and non-bifurcatory division in Statesman, related to the ‘god-given’ method in Philebus. I consider the natur...
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Coimbra University Press
2019
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