Plato and the Art of Philosophical WritingPlato's dialogues are usually understood as simple examples of philosophy in action. In this book Professor Rowe treats them rather as literary philosophical artefacts, shaped by Plato's desire to persuade his readers to exchange their view of life and the universe for a different view which, from their present perspective, they will barely begin to comprehend. What emerges is a radically new Plato: a Socratic throughout, who even in the late