Platonic writings, Platonic readings

Pt. I. Essays

Readings

1. Reading the Republic / Diskin Clay

2. Shame and Truth in Plato's Gorgias / Richard McKim

3. On Interpreting Plato / Alan C. Bowen

4. Theater of Myth in Plato / Jean-Francois Mattei

5. Digression and Dialogue: The Seventh Letter and Plato's Literary Form / Robert S. Brumbaugh

Writings

6. Plato's Dialogues in Light of the Seventh Letter / Kenneth M. Sayre

7. Why Dialogues? Plato's Serious Play / Rosemary Desjardins

8. On Socratic Dialogue / Jurgen Mittelstrass

9. Plato's Metaphilosophy: Why Plato Wrote Dialogues / Charles L. Griswold, Jr.

Pt. II. Dialogues

Readings

10. Liberalizing the Crito: Richard Kraut on Socrates and the State / Clifford Orwin

Reply to Clifford Orwin / Richard Kraut

11. Terence Irwin's Reading of Plato / David L. Roochnik

Reply to David L. Roochnik / Terence Irwin

12. Reading Plato: Paul Woodruff and the Hippias Major / Ronald Polansky

Reply to Ronald Polansky / Paul Woodruff

13. Kenneth Dorter's Interpretation of the Phaedo / Joachim Dalfen

Reply to Joachim Dalfen / Kenneth Dorter

Writings

14. Recollection, Dialectic, and Ontology: Kenneth M. Sayre on the Solution to a Platonic Riddle / Jon Moline

Reply to Jon Moline / Kenneth M. Sayre

15. Observations and Questions about Hans-Georg Gadamer's Interpretation of Plato / Nicholas P. White

Reply to Nicholas P. White / Hans-Georg Gadaner.