The Socratic Method of Dialectic -- The Protrptic Functon -- Ambiguity and Argumentation -- Ambiguity and Drama
Summary
Cain explains how Plato's Socrates uses fallacy, irony, ambiguity, and other rhetorical strategies to advance the Greek maxim to 'know thyself'; as a means of caring for the soul, thus offering a psychological model of dialectical arguments
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-132) and index
