Open AccessLogos and Plato's question on method
Author(s) -
Irina Deretić
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
theoria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-081X
pISSN - 0351-2274
DOI - 10.2298/theo0703007d
Subject(s) - socrates , dialectic , logos bible software , epistemology , philosophy , point (geometry) , platonic idealism , turning point , literature , aesthetics , mathematics , art , period (music) , theology , geometry
At first glance, Plato saw 'his method' as different processes and procedures The author of the paper attempts to show that all of these procedures are interrelated and that Plato kept on elaborating, supplementing and fine-tuning his methodological reflections. The procedure of giving a definition dominates his early dialogues, as well as the questioning and refutation of the various opinions of Socrates' interlocutors. In the Meno and the Phaedo, Plato introduces and practices the hypothetical method which was used by the mathematicians of those times. The dialogue Republic represents the turning point in his methodology. Therein Plato gives the most comprehensive description of the dialectical method and, simultaneously, foreshadows the method of division which he develops and practices in later dialogues