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- 2012532246 abstract "Plato famously promised to complement the Sophist and the Statesman with another work on a third sort of expert, the philosopher--but we do not have this final dialogue. Mary Louise Gill argues that Plato promised the Philosopher, but did not write it, in order to stimulate his audience and encourage his readers to work out, for themselves, the portrait it would have contained. The Sophist and Statesman are themselves members of a larger series starting with the Theaetetus, Plato's investigation of knowledge, and the whole series relies on the Parmenides, the second part of which presents a philosophical exercise, introduced as the first step in a larger philosophical program. Gill contends that the dialogues leading up to the missing Philosopher, though they reach some substantive conclusions, are philosophical exercises of various sorts designed to train students in dialectic, the philosopher's method; and that a second version of the Parmenides exercise, closely patterned on it, spans parts of the Theaetetus and Sophist and brings the philosopher into view. This is the exercise about being, the subject-matter studied by Plato's philosopher. Plato hides the pieces of the puzzle and its solution in plain sight, forcing his students (and modern readers) to dig out the pieces and reconstruct the project. Gill reveals how, in finding the philosopher through the exercise, the student becomes a philosopher by mastering his methods. She shows that the target of Plato's exercise is internally related to its pedagogical purpose.".
- 2012532246 contributor B12671362.
- 2012532246 created "2012.".
- 2012532246 date "2012".
- 2012532246 date "2012.".
- 2012532246 dateCopyrighted "2012.".
- 2012532246 description "Forms in question -- A philosophical exercise -- The contest between Heraclitus and Parmenides -- Knowledge as expertise -- Appearances of the Sophist -- Refining the statesman -- The philosopher's object.".
- 2012532246 description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- 2012532246 description "Plato famously promised to complement the Sophist and the Statesman with another work on a third sort of expert, the philosopher--but we do not have this final dialogue. Mary Louise Gill argues that Plato promised the Philosopher, but did not write it, in order to stimulate his audience and encourage his readers to work out, for themselves, the portrait it would have contained. The Sophist and Statesman are themselves members of a larger series starting with the Theaetetus, Plato's investigation of knowledge, and the whole series relies on the Parmenides, the second part of which presents a philosophical exercise, introduced as the first step in a larger philosophical program. Gill contends that the dialogues leading up to the missing Philosopher, though they reach some substantive conclusions, are philosophical exercises of various sorts designed to train students in dialectic, the philosopher's method; and that a second version of the Parmenides exercise, closely patterned on it, spans parts of the Theaetetus and Sophist and brings the philosopher into view. This is the exercise about being, the subject-matter studied by Plato's philosopher. Plato hides the pieces of the puzzle and its solution in plain sight, forcing his students (and modern readers) to dig out the pieces and reconstruct the project. Gill reveals how, in finding the philosopher through the exercise, the student becomes a philosopher by mastering his methods. She shows that the target of Plato's exercise is internally related to its pedagogical purpose.".
- 2012532246 extent "x, 290 p. ;".
- 2012532246 identifier "0199606188 (hbk.)".
- 2012532246 identifier "9780199606184 (hbk.)".
- 2012532246 identifier F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=024971136&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
- 2012532246 identifier acprof-9780199606184.
- 2012532246 issued "2012".
- 2012532246 issued "2012.".
- 2012532246 language "eng".
- 2012532246 publisher "Oxford : Oxford University Press,".
- 2012532246 subject "184 23".
- 2012532246 subject "B395 .G413 2012".
- 2012532246 subject "Plato.".
- 2012532246 tableOfContents "Forms in question -- A philosophical exercise -- The contest between Heraclitus and Parmenides -- Knowledge as expertise -- Appearances of the Sophist -- Refining the statesman -- The philosopher's object.".
- 2012532246 title "Philosophos : Plato's missing dialogue / Mary Louise Gill.".
- 2012532246 type "text".