
HoP 050 - MM McCabe and Raphael Woolf on Aristotle on Plato
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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Plato's Engagement With Plato in the Ethics of Plato
The more explicit he is when he names plato, the less careful he's engage. We might think that we might more certainly he often engages carryot with plato without naming him explicit but i think maybe what we need not underestimate is that the dialogues were things that people were reading. So by reading plato very, very carefully, all we're getting ourselves to do is recreate the frame of mind that aristotle's readers may be intended to have.
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