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For Plato, philosophy depends on, or is perhaps even identical with, dialectic. Few will dispute this claim, but there is little agreement as to what Platonic dialectic is. According to a now prevailing view it is a method for inquiry the conception of which changed so radically for Plato that it "had a strong tendency ... to mean 'the ideal method', whatever that may be" (Richard Robinson). Most studies of Platonic dialectic accordingly focus on only one aspect of this method that allegedly characterizes one specific period in Plato's development.
This volume offers fresh perspectives on Platonic dialectic. Its 13 chapters present a comprehensive picture of this crucial aspect of Plato's philosophy and seek to clarify what Plato takes to be proper dialectical procedures. They examine the ways in which these procedures are related to each other and other aspects of his philosophy, such as ethics, psychology, and metaphysics. Collectively, the chapters challenge the now prevailing understanding of Plato's ideal of method.
New Perspectives on Platonic Dialectic will appeal to scholars and advanced students interested in Plato, ancient philosophy, philosophical method, and the history of logic.
Contents
Introduction
Jens Kristian Larsen, Vivil Valvik Haraldsen, and Justin Vlasits
1. Socrates' Dialectical use of Hypothesis
Hayden Ausland
2. The Dialectician and the Statesman in Plato's Euthydemus
Emily Austin
3. Dialectic in Plato's Parmenides: The Schooling of Young Socrates
Francisco Gonzalez
4. Dialectic as a paradigm in the Republic: On the role of reason in the just life
Vivil Valvik Haraldsen
5. Elenchus and the Method of Division in the Sophist
Cristina Ionescu
6. Using Examples in Philosophical Inquiry: Plato's Statesman 277d1-278e2 and 285c4-286b2
Jens Kristian Larsen
7. Examples in the Meno
Peter D. Larsen
8. Between Variety and Unity. How to deal with Plato's Dialectic
Walter Mesch
9. Dialectic and the Ability to Orient Ourselves: Republic V-VII
Vasilis Politis
10. Another Platonic Method: Four genealogical myths about human nature and their philosophical contribution in Plato
Catherine Rowett
11. Dialectic in Plato's Sophist: The relation between the question 'What is being?' and the question 'What is there?'
Pauline Sabrier
12. Dialectic as Philosophical Divination in Plato's Phaedrus
Marilena Vlad
13. Plato on the Varieties of Knowledge
Justin Vlasits
