Scott, Gary Alan, editor. Does Socrates Have a Method? Rethinking the Elenchus in Plato's Dialogues and Beyond.(Book Review)

From: The Review of Metaphysics | Date: March 1, 2004| Author: Long, Christopher P. | Copyright information

SCOTT, Gary Alan, editor. Does Socrates Have a Method? Rethinking the Elenchus in Plato's Dialogues and Beyond. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002. ix + 327 pp. Cloth, $45.00--Since the publication of Gregory Vlastos's influential article, "The Socratic Elenchus" [Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 1 (1983): 27-58], talk of "the elenchus" has dominated scholarship concerned with the nature of Socrates' method. Yet for all the attention it has received,...