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A PLATONIC METHOD FOR MAKING IDEAS ENGAGING AND ACCESSIBLE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2015

Charles More
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Abstract

In this essay, I introduce an imaginative method for transforming reasoned arguments of specialists into a form that is engaging and accessible to nonspecialists. I begin by reviewing a passage in Plato in which the method is used. I then develop an example of the method for a modern context. I conclude with reasons that philosophy ought to concern itself to engage the general public using imaginative methods of this kind.

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Research Article
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Think , Volume 14 , Issue 40 , Summer 2015 , pp. 73 - 85
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2015 

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1 I would like to express my gratitude to my collaborators at Teaching Equality, Inc., especially Rick McPhee, for helping me to make progress with philosophy's long-held aspiration to engage in fruitful dialogue with non-specialists. I would also like to thank Dr. Robert Bühler and family for providing me with friendship and a writer's hideaway in Germany (where this essay was written), and Pia Sörensen for her constant love and angelic companionship.