Why Plato lost interest in the Socratic method / Gareth B. Matthews ; edited by S. Marc Cohen.
Matthews, Gareth B., 1929-2011, author.; Cohen, S. Marc, editor.
2023
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Title Why Plato lost interest in the Socratic method / Gareth B. Matthews ; edited by S. Marc Cohen.
Author Matthews, Gareth B., 1929-2011, author.
ISBN 9783031136900 (electronic bk.)
303113690X (electronic bk.)
9783031136894
3031136896
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13690-0
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, [2023]
Copyright ©2023
Language English
Description 1 online resource (x, 119 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-13690-0 doi
Call Number B395
Dewey Decimal Classification 184
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.
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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

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?

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

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.

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