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4Socrates and the early dialoguesIn Richard Kraut (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Plato, Cambridge University Press. pp. 121--69. 1992.
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17Two notes on the Crito: the impotence of the many, and ‘persuade or obey’Classical Quarterly 47 (1): 153-166. 1997.So far, interpreters have not made the import of this last clause clear. F. J. Church translates the last phrase ‘they act at random’. Burnet says of Adam that he seems to have been the first to point out that the meaning cannot be ‘they act at random’. Instead, ‘the phrase expresses indifference’. Adam′s idea, which Burnet here commends, is that the many are thoughtless in their treatment of the individual; and Adam compares 48C below: the many would lightly put someone to death and just as lig…Read more
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75Plato's LysisCambridge University Press. 2005.The Lysis is one of Plato's most engaging but also puzzling dialogues; it has often been regarded, in the modern period, as a philosophical failure. The full philosophical and literary exploration of the dialogue illustrates how it in fact provides a systematic and coherent, if incomplete, account of a special theory about, and special explanation of, human desire and action. Furthermore, it shows how that theory and explanation are fundamental to a whole range of other Platonic dialogues and in…Read more
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