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Titles appearing in Reference — Research Book News — November 2008
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Gorgias-Menon; selected papers from the Seventh Symposium Platonicum; proceedings.

Symposium Platonicum (7th: 2004: Wurzburg, Germany) Ed. by Michael Erler and Luc Brisson. (International Plato studies; v.25)
Academia Verlag, ©2007    389 p.    $92.50    B371
978-3-89665-357-4

The 46 papers — 25 in English and the rest in French, German, and Spanish — discuss the two dialogues by the ancient Greek philosopher, some only peripherally to their focus on another topic. The keynote talks cover the death of the so-called Socratic Elenchus and studying Plato and Platonism together. Other topics include, goodness trumping pleasure loving in Gorgias, the dialectic of essence and quality in the Meno, and what Socrates knew and how he knew it. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)