Abstract
The form in which Plato chose to inscribe his thought presents teachers with a problem. Its starkness, its self-imposed restrictions on descriptive and narrative content, and what is sometimes perceived as its manipulative commitment of dramatic convention to a didactic purpose all prompt students new to Plato to ask why he wrote the sort of dialogues he did.
Journal Title
Iowa Journal of Speech Communication
Volume
24
Issue
1
First Page
42
Last Page
55
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Davis, Janet
(1992)
"Plato and the Philosophic Dialogue,"
Iowa Journal of Communication: Vol. 24:
No.
1, Article 8.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/ijc/vol24/iss1/8
Copyright
©1992 Iowa Communication Association
