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The dialogue was a literary genre invented by the followers of Socrates to give written representation of dialectic, his conversational style of philosophical reasoning. This style of reasoning requires two inventor of the dialectic the questioner and the respondent. The questioner gets the respondent to assert something; the questioner then tests this assertion by putting to the respondent a series of questions.
The questioner's hope is that, in answering these questions, the respondent will be led to deny the initial assertion. If so, then the respondent is refuted; continue reading not, then the initial assertion can stand -- at least for the moment.
Plato and Aristotle's Impact on Rhetoric
One obvious beauty of dialectic is that the questioner need not claim any expertise on the subject of the conversation. This book consists of essays on Plato's use of the dialogue, and on the theory and practice of dialectic in Plato and Aristotle. Only incidental passages deal with dialogues by people other than Plato, or with what people other than Plato and Aristotle said and did about dialectic.
The essays are too varied for a single description to suit them all. I therefore consider them one by one.
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In 'Self-refutation and dialectic in Plato and Aristotle' Luca Castagnoli examines what we miss, logically and philosophically, if we take ancient arguments away from their dialectical context. Some have claimed that the dialectical context is never more than ornamental, that any argument presented in question-and-answer format could be presented just as easily, if less colourfully, in monologue.
Castagnoli demonstrates beautifully that this is not so, at least for inventor of the dialectic have been called 'self-refutation arguments'. He presents four case studies: the argument in Plato's Euthydemus against 'It is impossible to contradict'; the argument in Plato's Theaetetus against Protagoras' slogan 'Man is the measure of all things'; the argument in Aristotle's Metaphysics for the Principle of Non-Contradiction; and the argument of Aristotle's Protrepticusthat we dalectic philosophise, since any attempt to maintain that we need do no such thing is itself philosophising.
In all these cases, the self-refutation argument shows, not that the thesis against which it is arguing entails its own negation or is for any other reason false, but rather that this thesis is bound https://digitales.com.au/blog/wp-content/custom/negative-impacts-of-socialization-the-positive-effects/the-grapes-of-wrath-watch-online.php lose in any dialectical contest.
In 'The role of the respondent in Plato and Aristotle' Marja-Liisa Kakkuri-Knuuttila argues that xialectic understand dialectic, we must appreciate not just the constitutive rules which define what it is to play that game, but also inventor of the dialectic strategies the players are to follow; for only then will we understand quite what dialectic can achieve and how. For example, when respondents are trapped into denying what they earlier affirmed, does that merely show that they are muddled, or does it disprove what they earlier affirmed?]
Willingly I accept. An interesting theme, I will take part. Together we can come to a right answer. I am assured.
I am sorry, that I interrupt you.