Image, Myth, and Dialectic in Plato

The European Legacy 12 (2):211-223 (2007)
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This essay describes and illustrates the role that (verbal) pictures in general can play in the search for knowledge. Focusing on myth as a particular kind of verbal image, this essay examines the new form of myth that Plato creates and defines, and the role that this new form of myth can play in a philosophical logos

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