SOCRATIC METHOD

SOCRATIC METHOD

SEM 4: WESTERN PHILOSOPHY: UNIT 2

Unit- 2. Socrates and Plato

* Characteristics of Socratic method

BACKGROUND

• Socrates did not write anything. It was Plato who wrote dialogues which has Socrates as a character. Scholars point out that Plato's dialogues can be divided in i) Early dialogues ii) Middle dialogues iii) Later dialogues

• It is through the early dialogues of Plato, we get to know Socrates

• Early dialogues: Apology, Charmides, Crito, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Hippias Minor, Ion, Laches, Protagoras and Republic I) and 'transitional' Euthydemus, Hippias Major, Lysis, Menexenus and Meno

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is not an early dialogue of Plato.

• Crito

• Euhyphro

• Republic

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