Storey, Damien: From Mathematics to Dialectic in Plato's _Republic_

In Theôria as Cognition in Plato. Brill. pp. 43–59. 2026In the Republic, mathematics turns students' souls from sensibles to intelligibles. While there has been plenty of discussion of the transition from sensibles to mathematics, the transition from mathematics to dialectic has received less attention. I argue that Plato sees mathematics as usefully flawed in a way that leads students to dialectic, just as the limits of perception led students to mathematics. Students recognise this not through