num_pages: 418
description: Dialectic and Dialogue seeks to define the method and the aims of Plato's dialectic in both the "inconclusive" dialogues and the dialogues that describe and practice a method of hypothesis. Departing from most treatments of Plato, Gonzalez argues that the philosophical knowledge at which dialectic aims is nonpropositional, practical, and reflexive. The result is a reassessment of how Plato understood the nature of philosophy.
language: English
title: Dialectic and Dialogue: Plato's Practice of Philosophical Inquiry
titlecomplete: Dialectic and Dialogue: Plato's Practice of Philosophical Inquiry (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)
ratings_count: 4
publisher: Northwestern University Press