Titlebook: Why Plato Lost Interest in the Socratic Method; Gareth B. Matthews,S. Marc Cohen Book 2023 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)

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Gareth B. Matthews,S. Marc CohenSocratic method of questioning and refutation (elenchus) predominates the early Platonic dialogues.Early dialogues were intended to commemorate Socrates and the elenchus.Uncovering the shortcomings th

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The Socratic Method, so-called Socratic elenchus. This is a species of philosophical analysis whose aim is to arrive at the definition of a problematic concept by means of subjecting alternative proposals to potential refutation by means of counterexample. Six key features of the method are delineated.

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Analyzing Courage: ,, but Socrates shows them all to be defective. Their efforts end in perplexity, leading us to wonder whether the elenchus, as a form of inquiry, holds out a serious prospect of leading to the discovery of what courage is.

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Blameworthy Ignorance: ,are so dismal? We might hope to find an answer in the .. There we find a possible motivation for the elenchus in a principle of “epistemic purity”—the idea that one ought not to think one knows something that, in fact, one does not know.

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Virtue in Socratic Ignorance: , will ever be entirely satisfactory? The . may provide an answer, for it raises the possibility that the virtue that is the topic of this dialogue, . (self-mastery), may actually turn out to be the limited wisdom that Socrates claims to have, namely, self-knowledge.

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Conclusion,re are both internal and external limitations in what the elenchus can be reasonably expected to accomplish. And Plato also thought that philosophy can do more to get beyond those limitations. Only by going beyond the elenctic method will we be able to adequately address the foundational questions of philosophy.