caa a22 4500 388023554 CHVBK 20180307124931.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1998 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0048671X00001946 doi S0048671X00001946 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0048671X00001946 Wohl Victoria Ohio State University Plato Avant la Lettre: Authenticity in Plato's Epistles [Elektronische Daten] [Victoria Wohl] Plato's Epistles are among the most disputed texts of antiquity. Were they written by Plato? Some of them? all? none? Answers have varied wildly: at times all thirteen have been declared forgeries, alien to the thought and character of the Plato we know from the dialogues; at other times, the whole set has been accepted as a genuine, if unexpected, revelation of the life and preoccupations of Plato as a man. Since this debate has so far proved intractable, I would like to take a different approach to the question. The Epistles themselves raise obsessively the question of authenticity. If, laying aside all issues of provenance for the time being, we read the thirteen letters as a corpus (whether by Plato or someone else), what emerges from this philosophical ‘text' is the impossibility of an authentic written philosophy and of an authoritative self-present philosopher. Copyright © Aureal Publications 1998 Ramus Cambridge University Press 27/1(1998), 60-93 0048-671X 27:1<60 1998 27 RMU https://doi.org/10.1017/S0048671X00001946 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0048671X00001946 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Wohl Victoria Ohio State University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Ramus Cambridge University Press 27/1(1998), 60-93 0048-671X 27:1<60 1998 27 RMU CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge