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The development of dialectic from Plato to Aristotle / Jakob L. Fink.

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The period from Plato's birth to Aristotle's death (427-322 BC) is one of the most influential and formative in the history of Western philosophy. The developments of logic, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics and science in this period have been investigated, controversies have arisen and m...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Fink, Jakob L., 1977-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Plato.
Aristotle.
Dialectic.
Philosophy, Ancient.
Table of Contents:
  • Dialectic as inter-personal activity: Self-refutation and dialectic in Plato and Aristotle / Luca Castagnoli ; The role of the respondent in Plato and Aristotle / Marja-Liisa Kakkuri-Knuuttila ; Division as a method in Plato / Hallvard Fossheim
  • Form and content in the philosophical dialogue: Dialectic and dialogue in the lysis / Morten S. Thaning ; The laches and 'joint search' dialectic / Holger Thesleff ; The philosophical importance of the dialogue form for Plato / Charles H. Kahn ; How did Aristotle read a Platonic dialogue? / Jakob L. Fink
  • Dialectical methodology: What is behind the ti esti question? / Vasilis Politis ; Socratic induction in Plato and Aristotle / Hayden W. Ausland ; Aristotle's definition of elenchus in the light of Plato's Sophist / Louis-Andre Dorion ; The Aristotelian elenchus / Robert Bolton ; Aristotle's gradual turn from dialectic / Wolfgang Kullmann.
  • (b) The standard elenchus in Vlastos
  • (c) πειραστικτ̔̈"ΑΔ· in Bolton
  • (d) The need for further strategic rules
  • 3. AMBIGUITIES AND THE ELENCHUS IN THE EUTHYDEMUS
  • (a) Solving fallacies after the elenchus
  • (b) Preventing fallacies in the elenchus
  • 4. STRATEGIC RULES FOR THE RESPONDENT IN ARISTOTLE
  • (a) Rules for the knowledge basis
  • (b) Rules for solution
  • (c) Rules for ambiguous terms
  • (d) Rules for induction
  • 5. CONCLUSION
  • CHAPTER 3 Division as a method in Plato*
  • THE QUESTION
  • DIVISION
  • METHOD
  • A COLLABORATIVE IDEAL
  • A PSYCHOLOGICAL IDEAL
  • ARISTOTLE
  • A FINAL SUGGESTION
  • PART II: Form and content in the philosophical dialogue
  • CHAPTER 4 Dialectic and dialogue in the Lysis
  • THE DELIVERANCE OF LYSIS
  • THE SOLUTION OF THE LYSIS
  • DIALECTIC AND DIALOGUE FORM
  • (1) An essential purpose of the Lysis is to reflect upon and justify the Platonic dialogue as a protreptic speech
  • (2) Socrates' protreptic presupposes positive dialectic. Accordingly the άπορτ̔̈"ΑΕ·αι of the Lysis can be solved
  • (3) The Lysis is not only written to reflect upon and justify the Platonic dialogue as a protreptic speech (claim 1). Rather, a second purpose of the Lysis is to act as a basis for dialectical exercise and education.
  • (4) The passages in the dialogues where Socrates refutes his interlocutor are to be understood in relation to the specific interlocutor. In a dialectical exercise such passages might be re-interpreted from a new standpoint and shown to hold a grain of positive truth that was not apparent initially
  • CHAPTER 5 The Laches and 'joint search dialectic'
  • FORMAL PECULIARITIES
  • SOME PECULIARITIES OF THE THEME AND THE REASONING
  • PRELIMINARY REFLECTIONS ON THE AIM OF THE DIALOGUE
  • MORE TRACES OF PLATONIC PHILOSOPHY
  • INFERENCES
  • CONTEXT AND 'JOINT SEARCH DIALECTIC'

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