Does Socrates Have a Method? : : Rethinking the Elenchus in Plato's Dialogues and Beyond /

Does Socrates Have a Method? : : Rethinking the Elenchus in Plato's Dialogues and Beyond / / ed. by Gary Alan Scott.

Although ";the Socratic method"; is commonly understood as a style of pedagogy involving cross-questioning between teacher and student, there has long been debate among scholars of ancient philosophy about how this method as attributed to Socrates should be defined or, indeed, whether Socr...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
MitwirkendeR:
Ausland, Hayden,
Benson, Hugh,
Brickhouse, Thomas,
Carpenter, Michelle,
Carvalho, John,
Gerson, Lloyd,
Gonzalez, Francisco,
Lesher, James,
McPherran, Mark,
Polansky, Ronald,
Press, Gerald,
Renaud, François,
Schmid, W.,
Scott, Gary,
Smith, Nicholas,
Smith, P.,
Tarrant, Harold,
Waugh, Joanne,
Young, Charles,
HerausgeberIn:
Scott, Gary Alan,
Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]
©2002
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Abbreviations for Plato's Dialogues
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Contributors
  • Part One: Historical Origins of Socratic Method
  • 1 Parmenidean Elenchos
  • 2 Forensic Characteristics of Socratic Argumentation
  • 3 Elenchos and Exetasis: Capturing the Purpose of Socratic Interrogation
  • 4 Comments on Lesher, Ausland, and Tarrant
  • Part Two: Reexamining Vlastos's Analysis of "the Elenchus"
  • 5 Variety of Socratic Elenchi
  • 6 Problems with Socratic Method
  • 7 Elenctic Interpretation and the Delphic Oracle
  • 8 The Socratic Elenchos?
  • Part Three: Socratic Argumentation and Interrogation in Specific Dialogues
  • A. Clitophon, Euthydemus, Lysis, Philebus
  • 9 The Socratic Elenchus as Constructive Protreptic
  • 10 Humbling as Upbringing: The Ethical Dimension of the Elenchus in the Lysis
  • 11 The (De)construction of Irrefutable Argument in Plato's Philebus
  • 12 Elenchos, Protreptic, and Platonic Philosophizing
  • B. Four Interpretations of Elenchus in the Charmides
  • 13 Socratic Dialectic in the Charmides
  • 14 The Elenchos in the Charmides, 162-175
  • 15 Certainty and Consistency in the Socratic Elenchus
  • 16 Questioning the Self: A Reaction to Carvalho, Press, and Schmid
  • About the Contributors
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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