The Meaninjand the Necessity of the Dialogue-Form in the Philosophy of Plat

我的研究主题是柏拉图哲学的方法论，这是最近该领域学者的中心问题之一。在我研究的第一学期。我主要是努力尽可能全面地跟踪和吸收与这个主题有关的新出版物。这对我的任务非常有帮助，我仔细地考察了它们，并适当地考虑了古代哲学家提出的传统柏拉图理解。例如普鲁塔克和阿尔比诺斯。考虑到奖学金，我于1996年3月在京都举行的古代哲学学会的一次会议上宣读了关于这一主题的论文。研究结果发表在1996年10月的《哲学研究杂志》第562期，题为“对话与记忆——柏拉图哲学方法介绍（上）”。在本文中，我考察了柏拉图在他的表演哲学中所采用的对话形式的优点和必要性。现在，我将进入本文的第二部分，在这一部分中，我将试图弄清楚“记忆”理论的意义，以及柏拉图哲学是如何通过它发展到形式理论的。我认为这两种理论本质上与柏拉图作品中对话形式的动机有关。

The subject of my research, which concerns the methodology of Platonic philosophy, is recently one of the central issues among the scholars in this field. In the first term of my research. I mainly made effort to follow and to assimilate the new publications related to this theme as comprehensively as was possible. It was very helpful for my task to examine them closely with due regard to traditional Plato understandings proposed by the ancient philosophers. e.g.Plutarch and Albinous.Taking into accout the scholarship, I read my paper on this theme at a meeting of the Society for Ancient Philosophy at Kyoto in March 1996. The result was published on the Journal of Philosophical Studies (the Tetsugaku Kenkyu) 562 (October 1996), entitled "Dialogue and Anamnesis-An Introduction to the Method of Plato's Philosophy (Part 1)". In this paper I scrutinised the merit and the necessity of the dialogue-form which had been adopted by Plato in his performing philosophy.I am now going on the second part of this paper, in which I am to try to make clear the meaning of the 'anamnesis'-theory, and the way of Platonic philosophy developing through it into the theory of Forms. I think that these two theories are very essentially connected with the intention which motivated the dialogueform in the writings of Plato.