Title The Socratic method : Plato's use of philosophical drama / Rebecca Bensen Cain.

Publication Info.	London ; New York : Continuum, [2007]
	©2007

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Description	1 online resource (x, 135 pages).
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Continuum studies in ancient philosophy
	Continuum studies in ancient philosophy.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-132) and index.
Contents	The Socratic Method of Dialectic -- The Protrptic Functon -- Ambiguity and Argumentation -- Ambiguity and Drama.
Summary	Cain explains how Plato's Socrates uses fallacy, irony, ambiguity, and other rhetorical strategies to advance the Greek maxim to 'know thyself'; as a means of caring for the soul, thus offering a psychological model of dialectical arguments.
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Subject	Plato.
	Plato.
	Socrates.
	Socrates.
	Questioning.
	Questioning.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Bensen Cain, Rebecca, 1952- Socratic method. London ; New York : Continuum, ©2007 0826488919 (DLC) 2007278363 (OCoLC)74524121
ISBN	9781441168795 (electronic book)
	1441168796 (electronic book)
	0826488919
	9780826488916
	9781472598066 (online)
	1472598067
	9781441193834 (electronic book)
	1441193839