Rational Spirituality and Divine Virtue in Plato by LaFargue Michael

Author:LaFargue, Michael.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2016-03-22T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

Rules of Socratic Method

The present critically reconstructed version of Platonism is somewhat unique in the particular kind of connection it makes between Socratic reasoning and knowledge of “otherworldly” Platonic Virtue-Forms. One way it does this is by a process of critical selection and mutual adjustment: (1) selecting from Plato’s writings only certain examples of Socratic reasoning, and interpreting this reasoning in a way that it can support knowledge of Platonic Virtue-Forms; and (2) scaling back claims made about Platonist Virtue-Forms to what can be supported by this reconstructed version of Socratic reasoning, but which retains what is most personally and existentially challenging about otherworldly Virtue-Forms as the centerpiece of Plato’s worldview.

Chapter 1 already presented an initial sketch of a version of Socratic reasoning capable of supporting knowledge of Platonic Virtue-Forms. The present chapter gives a more systematic and detailed presentation of methods and rules constituting this critically reconstructed method of reasoning. This again is necessary since I want to present Socratic/Platonic reasoning as something anyone interested can actually practice today.

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