PLATO'S AUTHORITY AND THE FORMATION OF TEXTUAL COMMUNITIES
2014 ◽
Vol 64
(2)
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pp. 793-807
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It is widely agreed that, in the re-emergence of Platonism as a dogmatic school of philosophy following the demise of the sceptical academy, Plato's works came to have an authoritative status. This paper argues for a particular understanding of what that authority consists in and how it was acquired.
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