Socratic method and Socratic truth

Title: Socratic method and Socratic truth
Creator: Tarrant, Harold
Relation: A Companion to Socrates p. 254-272
Relation: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470996218
Publisher: Blackwell
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2006
Description: Readers of the early dialogues of Plato may soon feel that his Socrates proceeds methodically towards the ultimate embarrassment of his verbal wrestling-partners. Several recurrent tactics are easily identified, giving credence to claims that Socrates has a method. As Aristotle saw, he demanded universal definitions and he employed epagōgē. He elicited from an interlocutor whose belief he would question certain other beliefs, seemingly more fundamental, entailing the contradiction of the original belief. He flattered, hassled, cajoled, and criticized. He employed his own recurrent themes, presented in a positive light, so as to undermine others. More fundamentally, he pursued philosophy neither in solitary meditation, nor out among the masses, but on a one-to-one basis,following an argument through with one individual at a time, as if the nature of philosophy demanded that it be practiced dialogically.
Subject: classics; classical philosophy; Socrates; truth
Identifier: uon:5795
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/44519
Identifier: ISBN:9781405108638

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