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Symposium (Hardcover)
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Symposium (Hardcover)
Series: The Macat Library
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Plato's Symposium, composed in the early fourth century BC,
demonstrates how powerful the skills of reasoning and evaluation
can be. Known to philosophers for its seminal discussion of the
relationship of love to knowledge, it is also a classic text for
demonstrating the two critical thinking skills that define Plato's
whole body of work. Plato's philosophical technique of dialogue is
the perfect frame for producing arguments and presenting a
persuasive case for a given point of view, and at the same time
judging the strength of arguments, their relevance and their
acceptability. Staging a fictional debate between characters
(wealthy Athenians at a dinner party) who must respond in turn to
each others' arguments and points of view means that, at every
stage, Plato evaluates the previous argument, assesses its strength
and relevance, and then proceeds (through the next character) to
reason out a new argument in response. Exerting unparalleled
influence on the techniques of philosophical thought, Plato's use
of dialogue is a supreme example of these two crucial critical
thinking skills.
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