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The Anatomy of an Illusion: On Plato's Purported Commitment to Self-Predication

The publication of Gregory Vlastos' 1954 essay The Third Man Argument in the Parmenides' was a defining moment for twentieth-century Platonic scholarship. For one thing, the essay helped bring the techniques of close argumentative analysis to the study of Plato, thus making the dialogues more accessible to those trained in philosophy departments in the English-speaking world. For another, it offered a broad and neatly integrated account of Plato's philosophical concerns. Although ostensibly an analysis of a single thirteen-line argument, it incorporated a general sketch of the ontological and epistemological preoccupations governing Plato's so-called middleand later-period works. The sketch was formative for many Fjiglish-language interpretations of Plato's thought and, what is nearly as significant, it provided Vlastos with a basis for his later, highly influential attempts to filter the views of the historical Socrates from properly "Platonic" doctrines. It would hardly