Desjardins, Rosemary, The Rational Enterprise: Logos in Plato's Theaetetus, Albany, NY: SUNY, 1990.

Excerpt:

“Any discourse ought to be constructed like a living creature, with its own body as it were; it must not lack either heard or feet; it must have a middle and extremities so composed as to suit each other and the whole work.” (Phaedr. 264c2-5).

Plato’s words ring in my ears as I face the task of writing about the Theaetetus, for as a piece of philosophical literature, this dialogue meets with stunning success his own criteria for an organically structured logos. There are, nevertheless, difficulties that confront the would-be analyst, since there are various ways in which the divisions may be drawn.

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