Agora, Academy, and the Conduct of Philosophy

Agora, Academy, and the Conduct of Philosophy offers extremely careful and detailed criticisms of some of the most important assumptions scholars have brought to bear in beginning the process of (Platonic) interpretation. It goes on to offer a new way to group the dialogues, based on important facts in the lives and philosophical practices of Socrates — the main speaker in most of Plato's dialogues — and of Plato himself. Both sides of Debra Nails's arguments deserve close attention: the ne...