Socrates’ Search for Laches’ Knowledge of Courage
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9690910 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dylan B Futter (0000-0002-1863-6838, University of the Witwatersrand, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 775-798 |
| Publication date | 2017-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dialogue (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-2173 • E-ISSN: 1759-0949 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0012217317000610 |
| OpenAlex | W2751867907 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 20 |
In Plato’s Laches , Socrates ascribes knowledge of courage to his eponymous interlocutor and makes an attempt to reconstruct it in speech. His attribution of knowledge to Laches controls his discursive behaviour in the dialogue, requiring him to withhold judgements of error, construe apparent error as a failure of speech rather than knowledge, and search for the deeper truth underlying the overt content of Laches’ utterances. Socrates’ method in this elenchus can be described as a kind of ‘epistemic exegesis,’ which aims to draw out and give discursive shape to knowledge of virtue that it assumes that the interlocutor already possesses
Attribution · Courage · Epistemology · SOCRATES · Theology · Virtue · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
Plato's earlier dialectic
The Concept of Mind
The Socratic Elenchos?
Plato’s Socrates
The Socratic Elenchus
Plato’s Euthyphro
Socratic Wisdom
Socrates’ Demand For Definitions
The Dissolution of the Problem of the Elenchus
Plato’s Socratic Conversations
The Socratic Fallacy and the Epistemological Priority of Definitional Knowledge
Socrates at Work on Virtue and Knowledge in Plato’s Laches
Plato’s Arguments And The Dialogue Form
Socrates' Pursuit of Definitions
Socratic “Argument” in Plato’s Early Definitional Dialogues
Studies in the Way of Words
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
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| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |