Through
work with Lumiere Ghosting and the CompuObscura, we
have often found our course discussions and the "products"
that we created taking on the shape of the dialectic
as Pierre Hadot discusses Plato’s approach to
philosophy in What is Ancient Philosophy?:
“Such was the deepest intention
of Plato’s philosophy. He did not aim to construct
a theoretical system of reality, and then “inform”
his readers of it by writing a series of dialogues which
methodically set forth this system.
Instead, his work consisted in
“forming” people—that is to say, in
transforming individuals by making them experience,
through the example of a dialogue which the reader has
the illusion of overhearing, the demands of reason,
and eventually the norm of the good.”
(Hadot, p.73)
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