📱 eBook en inglés DIALECTIC IN ACTION

Platos Crito examines a single moral decision, whether Socrates ought to escape from his death-cell. Stokes book discusses Socrates arguments against Critos offer of escape. It construes Socrates questions as genuine questions, which clarify and undermine Critos positions. Stokess approach avoids the documentary fallacy; it shows how Plato catered for both the novice and the experienced reader of his published works. This book offers a fresh account of Socrates whole strategy. It demonstrates both the shakiness of Socrates persuasion of the un-philosophical Crito to engage in dialectic, and the coherence of his substantive confutation. Platos reasoning emerges from Stokes study with more credit than many have given it.