Dialectic and Dialogue: Plato's Practice of Philosophical Inquiry

*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.