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Keywords: Plato, Republic, dialectic, conversation, knowledge, understanding, perceptible object Intellectual seeing is continuous with dialectic, and is the means to the transformative good of knowledge. But why should we think conversation opens the eye of the soul? Three suggestions are made: perception, whether intellectual or sensible, is not merely passive for Plato consequently, the ‘sight’ of the form of the good can be part of a discursive process, both synoptic and second order when the soul ‘sees’ the form of the good, it sees it as the cause of everything. But how can conversations ensure they reach a conclusion or track the truth? Some argue that the encounter with the form of the good is a direct action by the good upon the philosopher via intellectual perception, and so not conversational at all. Dialectic and Dialogue seeks to define the method and the aims of Platos dialectic in both the inconclusive dialogues and the dialogues that describe and. This allows us to reach the ‘unhypothesized beginning’ and the form of the good. Republic VII formalizes philosophical conversation as dialectic while retaining its conversational characteristics.

16 With Mirrors or Without? Self-Perception in Eudemian Ethics vii.

15 Some Conversations with Plato: Aristotle, Metaphysics Z.

14 Perceiving that We See and Hear: Aristotle on Plato on Judgement and Reflection.

III On Aristotle’s Conversations with Plato.

13 Out of the Labyrinth: Plato’s Attack on Consequentialism.

12 Indifference Readings: Plato and the Stoa on Socratic Ethics.

An important consequence of this is that a dialectical process leaves room for discovery, or invention, in a way that apodeictic normally cannot, for the cooperative or antagonistic encounter tends to yield results unanticipated by either party to the discussion.

11 From the Cradle to the Cave: What Happened to Self-Knowledge in the Republic? 'Dialectical method necessarily presupposes a conversation between two parties.

10 Escaping One’s Own Notice Knowing: Meno’s Paradox Again.

9 Looking Inside Charmides’ Cloak: Seeing Others and Oneself in Plato’s Charmides.

8 Unity in the Parmenides: The Unity of the Parmenides.

6 Is Dialectic as Dialectic Does? The Virtue of Philosophical Conversation.

5 Myth, Allegory, and Argument in Plato.

3 The Moving Posset Stands Still:Heraclitus Fr.