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1 online resource (x, 119 pages) |
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Palgrave pivot |
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Palgrave pivot.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Editor's Introduction -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter 1: The Socratic Method -- Meno, Republic I, and Theaetetus -- The Socratic Method of Instruction -- The Law-School Socratic Method -- The Socratic Elenchus -- Chapter 2: Analyzing Courage: Laches -- The Need for Expertise -- A Requirement for Knowledge -- Focusing on a Part of Virtue -- A Counterexample -- A Second Try -- Perplexity -- Nicias Has a Try -- The Crommyon Sow -- What Is to Be Feared and Hoped for -- Rejection -- What Went Wrong? -- Unsettling Questions -- Chapter 3: Analyzing Piety: Euthyphro -- Filial Piety |
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What Is Piety? -- The Inner Paradeigma -- The First Suggestion -- The Second Suggestion -- The Central Argument -- Chapter 4: Blameworthy Ignorance: Apology -- Examples -- The Hard Rock of Perplexity -- The Delphic Oracle -- The Oracle Story Applied -- Finding Another Motivation for the Elenchus -- The Divine Mission -- Blameworthy Ignorance -- The Ethics of Belief -- Chapter 5: Virtue in Socratic Ignorance: Charmides -- Self-Mastery -- A Natural Virtue? -- Knowing One's Own Virtues -- The Argument -- The First Two Suggestions -- Another Interlocutor -- Why Critias? |
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Justification for Conducting an Elenchus -- Socratic Ignorance as a Virtue -- Chapter 6: Latent Knowledge: Meno -- Complete Ignorance -- Targeting Virtue -- Criteria for a Satisfactory Analysis -- A Suggested Analysis -- Perplexity -- The Paradox of Inquiry -- Recollection -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7: Forms Left Unanalyzed: Phaedo -- Equality -- Chapter 8: Downgrading the Elenchus: Republic I-II -- Why Another Elenchus? -- Republic I as an Elenchus -- Looking More Closely -- Justice as a Real Kind -- The Craft Analogy -- The Profit of Injustice -- Plato's Assessment of the Elenchus |
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Glaucon Takes Over -- The Social Compact -- Plato's Change of Focus -- Chapter 9: Farewell to the Elenchus: Theaetetus -- Reading the Theaetetus as an Elenchus -- Chapter 10: Philosophy Professionalized: Sophist -- Chapter 11: Conclusion -- Internal Limitations -- Another Internal Limitation -- External Reasons -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
The Socratic method of questioning and refutation (elenchus) predominates the early Platonic dialogues. But things change in the middle dialogues, as Socrates goes beyond merely asking questions and begins to provide answers to his questions. And the method virtually disappears in the late dialogues. The standard explanation of this phenomenon is that the early dialogues were intended to commemorate Socrates and the elenchus, while in the middle and late dialogues Plato went beyond Socrates to present his own mature philosophical thought. In this book, Matthews revises this explanation by uncovering the shortcomings that Plato came to find in the Socratic method and the reasons why Plato lost interest in it |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central platform, viewed February 3, 2023) |
| Subject |
Plato.
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Socrates -- Influence
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| SUBJECT |
Plato fast |
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Socrates fast |
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Philosophy, Ancient.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Philosophy, Ancient
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cohen, S. Marc, editor.
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| ISBN |
9783031136900 |
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303113690X |
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