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    Doing it vs. Teaching it: a Modest Proposal
    Philosophie Et Culture: Actes du XVIIe Congrès Mondial de Philosophie 5 486-487. 1988.
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    François Renaud replies to the question of what principles one ought to employ in the study of Plato by arguing that, and demonstrating how, the argument and the drama operate together successfully in the Gorgias. In agreement with Renaud’s approach, I expose some historical roots with a review of Platonic interpretive strategies of the modern period in the context of history of philosophy more generally. I also try to show why argument and drama operate together, an insight I attribute to Plato…Read more
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    The Making of the Platonic Corpus (edited book)
    with Olga Alieva and Harold Tarrant
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    The Life of Plato of Athens
    In Hugh H. Benson (ed.), A Companion to Plato, Blackwell. 2006.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Plato's Youth in Athens Plato's First Visit to Sicily and the Founding of the Academy Plato's Sicilian Expeditions for Dion and Philosophy Plato's Final Years.
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    Plato’s Antipaideia: Perplexity for the Guided
    The Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 3 205-210. 1998.
    ‘Paideia’ connotes the handing down and preservation of tradition and culture, even civilization, through education. Plato’s education of philosophers in the Academy is inimical to such an essentially conservative notion. His dialectical method is inherently dynamic and open-ended: not only are such conclusions as are reached in the dialogues subject to further criticism, so are the assumptions on which those conclusions are based. In these and other ways explored in this paper, Plato demonstrat…Read more
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    Teaching Plato in South African Universities
    South African Journal of Philosophy 8 (2): 100-117. 1989.
  • A Human Being Like Any Other: Like No Other
    Philosophical Forum 18 (2): 124. 1986.