Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Matthews, Gareth B
• Cohen, S. Marc

Titel

Downgrading the Elenchus: Republic I–II

Ist Teil von

• Why Plato Lost Interest in the Socratic Method, 2022, p.79-92

Ort / Verlag

Switzerland: Springer International Publishing AG

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Although in the Phaedo, Plato seems to have abandoned the elenchus, it seems to return in the first two books of the Republic. But it would be a mistake to read Republic I as a standard elenchus. Rather, Plato wants to show that the classic elenchus depends on assumptions that will not always be met. And in Republic II, he makes it clear that the classic elenchus will be powerless against a well-worked out philosophical theory offered by a sophisticated professional. What will be required is a superior alternative theory. And that is just what Plato offers in the rest of the Republic.