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- Plato and Aristotle on Strategy and Persuasion in Dialectic
Plato and Aristotle on Strategy and Persuasion in Dialectic
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This dissertation treats Socrates' argumentative strategies in Plato's Protagoras,
Gorgias, and Meno. These strategies will be compared to those found in Aristotle's logical
works, especially his Analytics, Topics, and Sophistical Refutations. In these texts, Aristotle
describes the competitive debates popular among certain Greek intellectuals. These bouts
featured a questioner who offered various propositions to an answerer. The questioner tried to
force the answerer into a contradiction based on affirmed propositions, and the answerer tried to
evade contradiction by caution in making affirmations. Few scholars have argued that Plato's
dialogues are representatives of these verbal jousts, but such a claim resolves traditional
difficulties, such as (1) what Socrates' method was (if he had one), or (2) why he made 'bad'
arguments, or (3) what he hoped to achieve by refuting an opponent.
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