9 The Socratic Elenchus as Constructive Protreptic

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Abbreviations for Plato’s Dialogues ix
4. Preface xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Contributors 1
7. Part One: Historical Origins of Socratic Method
8. 1 Parmenidean Elenchos 19
9. 2 Forensic Characteristics of Socratic Argumentation 36
10. 3 Elenchos and Exetasis: Capturing the Purpose of Socratic Interrogation 61
11. 4 Comments on Lesher, Ausland, and Tarrant 78
12. Part Two: Reexamining Vlastos’s Analysis of “the Elenchus”
13. 5 Variety of Socratic Elenchi 89
14. 6 Problems with Socratic Method 101
15. 7 Elenctic Interpretation and the Delphic Oracle 114
16. 8 The Socratic Elenchos? 145
17. Part Three: Socratic Argumentation and Interrogation in Specific Dialogues
18. A. Clitophon, Euthydemus, Lysis, Philebus
19. 9 The Socratic Elenchus as Constructive Protreptic 161
20. 10 Humbling as Upbringing: The Ethical Dimension of the Elenchus in the Lysis 183
21. 11 The (De)construction of Irrefutable Argument in Plato’s Philebus 199
22. 12 Elenchos, Protreptic, and Platonic Philosophizing 217
23. B. Four Interpretations of Elenchus in the Charmides
24. 13 Socratic Dialectic in the Charmides 235
25. 14 The Elenchos in the Charmides, 162–175 252
26. 15 Certainty and Consistency in the Socratic Elenchus 266
27. 16 Questioning the Self: A Reaction to Carvalho, Press, and Schmid 281
28. About the Contributors 299
29. Works Cited 303
30. Index 319