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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

Yazar : Gary Alan (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Loyola College, Maryland, USA) Scott
Yayınevi : Pennsylvania State University Press
ISBN : 9780271021737
Baskı yılı : 2002
Sayfa sayısı : 344
Ağırlık : 0.62 kg
Edisyon : 1
Stok durumu : Tükendi   
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. This volume brings together essays by classicists and philosophers examining this controversy anew. The point of departure for many of those engaged in the debate has been the identification of Socratic method with "the elenchus" as a technique of logical argumentation aimed at refuting an interlocutor, which Gregory Vlastos highlighted in an influential article in 1983. The essays in this volume look again at many of the issues to which Vlastos drew attention but also seek to broaden the discussion well beyond the limits of his formulation. Some contributors question the suitability of the elenchus as a general description of how Socrates engages his interlocutors; others trace the historical origins of the kinds of argumentation Socrates employs; others explore methods in addition to the elenchus that Socrates uses; several propose new ways of thinking about Socratic practices. 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. Overall, representing a wide range of approaches in Platonic scholarship, the volume aims to enliven and reorient the debate over Socratic method so as to set a new agenda for future research.
Abbreviations for Platos Dialogues
Preface by Gary Alan Scott
Introduction by Gary Alan Scott 1
Pt. 1 Historical Origins of Socratic Method
1 Parmenidean Elenchos by James H. Lesher 19
2 Forensic Characteristics of Socratic Argumentation by Hayden W. Ausland 36
3 Elenchos and Exetasis: Capturing the Purpose of Socratic Interrogation by Harold Tarrant 61
4 Comments on Lesher, Ausland, and Tarrant by Charles M. Young 78
Pt. 2 Reexamining Vlastoss Analysis of "the Elenchus"
5 Variety of Socratic Elenchi by Michelle Carpenter and Ronald M. Polansky 89
6 Problems with Socratic Method by Hugh H. Benson 101
7 Elenctic Interpretation and the Delphic Oracle by Mark McPherran 114
8 The Socratic Elenchos? by Thomas C. Brickhouse and Nicholas D. Smith 145
Pt. 3 Socratic Argumentation and Interrogation in Specific Dialogues
9 The Socratic Elenchus as Constructive Protreptic by Francisco J. Gonzalez 161
10 Humbling as Upbringing: The Ethical Dimension of the Elenchus in the Lysis by Francois Renaud 183
11 The (De)construction of Irrefutable Argument in Platos Philebus by P. Christopher Smith 199
12 Elenchos, Protreptic, and Platonic Philosophizing by Lloyd P. Gerson 217
13 Socratic Dialectic in the Charmides by W. Thomas Schmid 235
14 The Elenchos in the Charmides, 162-175 by Gerald A. Press 252
15 Certainty and Consistency in the Socratic Elenchus by John M. Carvalho 266
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