The elentic character of dialectics in the Republic
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https://doi.org/10.14409/topicos.2024.46.e0084Keywords:
Republic, Élenchos, DialecticAbstract
The present study examines dialectic in Plato's Republic in order to show that it continues to have strong points of contact with that practised in the earlier period, particularly in the relevance that elenchos retains as a necessary means of access to truth. The centrality of refutation in the Republic, it will be shown, is evident not only from the passages in which dialectic is theoretically characterised, but also from the exercise of dialectic that is evident throughout the text. In fact, as I propose, the whole dialogue proceeds on the basis of successive attempts to test and refute the positions defended by Socrates, who has to show his mettle and come through unscathed in the face of the attacks to which he is subjected by his interlocutors in a philosophical spirit.
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Adam, J. (1963). The Republic of Plato. Edited with Critical Notes, Commentary, and Appendices. Vol. II. Cambridge University Press (1 ed. 1902).
Baltzly, D. (1996). To an Unhypothetical First Principle. History of Philosophy Quarterly, XIII (2), 146-165.
Baltzly, D. (1999). Aristotle and Platonic Dialectic in Methaphysics IV 4. Apeiron, (32), 171-202.
Boeri, M. (2017). Dialéctica, Pensamiento ‘intuitivo’ y ‘discursivo’ en Platón. Tópicos (México), (52), 11-42.
Castagnoli, L. (2010). Ancient Self-Refutation. The Logic and History of the Self-Refutation Argument from Democritus to Augustine, Cambridge.
Duke, E. A. et al. (eds.) (1995). Platonis Opera. Oxford University Press.
González, F. (1998). Dialectic and Dialogue. Plato’s Practice of Philosophical Inquiry, Evanson, Illinois.
Larsen, J., Haraldsen, V. y Vlasits, J. (eds.) (2022). New Perspectives on Platonic Dialectic. A Philosophy on Inquiry, Taylor & Francis.
Marcos, G. (2020). La crítica a los matemáticos que toman las hipótesis por principios (República VI-VII). Una interpretación a la luz de la metáfora del sueño. Plato Journal. The Journal of the International Plato Society, 20, 67-80.
Marcos, G. (2022). Dialectic and Refutation in Plato. On the Role of Refutation in the Search for Truth. Revvsta Archai, (32), e03214. https://doi.org/10.14195/1984-249X_32_14
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Robinson, R. (1953). Plato’s Earlier Dialectic, Oxford.
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Vallejo Campos, A. (2018). Adonde nos lleve el logos. Para leer la República de Platón. Trotta.
Trabattoni, F. (2003). Il sapere del filosofo. En Vegetti, M., Platone. La Repubblica (vol. V) (157-163). Bibliopolis.
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