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Does Socrates Have a Method? book. Eight essays focus on specific dialogues, each examining why Plato has Socrates use the particular methods he does in the context defined by the dialogue

Does Socrates Have a Method? book. Eight essays focus on specific dialogues, each examining why Plato has Socrates use the particular methods he does in the context defined by the dialogue.

As Scott notes, there is a deliberate effort by most contributors to break with the tradition, and rethink old assumptions about the . Gary Alan Scott is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Loyola College in Maryland.

As Scott notes, there is a deliberate effort by most contributors to break with the tradition, and rethink old assumptions about the Socratic method associated with Vlastos’s model. The current lack of consensus between scholars seems to be a desirable effect because it expands and stimulates discussion, especially about what terms one ought to use in talking about Socratic method. Rebecca Bensen, Journal of the History of Philosophy. Despite their variations in topic and approach, the essays are uniformly excellent.

The controversy surrounding the question whether Socrates in Plato’s dialogues employs any special method . Does an elenchus occur only in those cases in which Socrates brings an interlocutor to an explicit admission of ignorance or perplexity (aporia)?

The controversy surrounding the question whether Socrates in Plato’s dialogues employs any special method or set of methods, and, if he does, just what makes this method or set of methods Socratic, persists no matter how one defines Socratic method. Does an elenchus occur only in those cases in which Socrates brings an interlocutor to an explicit admission of ignorance or perplexity (aporia)?

Does Socrates Have a Method? . 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.

Scott, Gary Alan, Does Socrates Have a Method' Rethinking the .

Vlastos himself had since the 1950s been fascinated with the idea that Plato’s Socrates had a distinctive method of argument, not merely a distinctive set of ethical views, even though Socrates never raised this implicit methodology to the level of conscious examination.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12. Qty: Get In-Stock Alert. Traditionally, the Socratic Method' has been interpreted as the exchange of ideas, or dialogue, between teacher and pupil. More recently scholars have begun to dispute that Socrates even has a method at all and, therefore, it is time to re-examine Socrates' way of philosophosing in the dialgues, his elenchus'. Does socrates have a method? Specifications. Penn State University Press.

Rethinking the Elenchus in Platoâ& Dialogues and Beyond. The Pennsylvania State University Press University Park, Pennsylvania. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 0-271-02173-x (alk. paper) 1. Socrates. 2. Methodology-History.

Published by Pennsylvania State University Press. Does Socrates Have a Method? Rethinking the Elenchus in Plato’s Dialogues and beyond. The legendary LRB Mousemat is back! Our much loved keyboard reference mousemat is back in stock!

In a dialogue, elenchus is the "Socratic method" of questioning someone to test the . Rethinking the Elenchus in Plato's Dialogues Plato produced 13 volumes of Socratic Dialogues, in which Socrates would question a prominent Athenian on moral and philosophical issues.

In a dialogue, elenchus is the "Socratic method" of questioning someone to test the cogency, consistency, and credibility of what he or she has said. Adjective: elentic Rethinking the Elenchus in Plato's Dialogues. Plato produced 13 volumes of Socratic Dialogues, in which Socrates would question a prominent Athenian on moral and philosophical issues. So often cast as the questioner, it is hard to establish any of Socrates' own philosophical beliefs. He said his wisdom was an awareness of his own ignorance, and his statement, 'I know that I know nothing' is often quoted.

Rethinking the Elenchus in Plato's Dialogues and Beyond. 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 Socrates can be said to have used any single, uniform method at all distinctive to his way of philosophizing.