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Reading Plato offers a concise and illuminating insight into the complexitiesand difficulties of the Platonic dialogues providing an invaluable text forany student of Platos philosophy.Taking as a starting point the critique of writing in the Phaedrus whereSocrates argues that a book cannot choose its reader nor can it defend itselfagainst misinterpretation Reading Plato offers solutions to the problems ofinterpreting the dialogues. In this groundbreaking book Thomas A. Szlezakpersuasively argues that the dialogues are designed to stimulate philosophicalenquiry and to elevate philosophy to the realm of oral dialectic. «
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