The Ontology of Socratic Questioning in Plato's Early Dialogues

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Ackrill, J.L., 13, 184n. 28 Aeschylus Agamemnon, 40 Prometheus Bound, 212n. 29 Robert Lowell’s translation of the Oresteia, 150 Suppliants, 206 n. 12 Alcibiades I, 235n. 8 Allen, R.E., 15, 179n. 8, 184n. 36, 233nn. 30, 33, 236n. 10, 240nn. 17, 18 alêtheia (truth), 48–55, 59–65 and meletê/lupê, 109–111 as aporia, 144–150, 151, as divine wandering, 159–162 as unconcealment/unforgetting, 51–55, 192n. 10, 200n. 35, 201n. 38 Socrates’ commitment to, 48–51, 61, 199nn. 33, 34 anthrôpinê sophia (human wisdom), 38, 42, 69–70, 72, 113, 131, 211n. 27 Apology, xxi–xxii, 10, 36–38, 41–57, 64–70, 72, 89, 93–94, 97–99, 107, 108, 111, 154, 178n. 11, 215n. 48 aporia, xxi, 8, 99, 103–105, 109, 130–131, 145–147, 151, 155, 170, 176n. 10, 241n. 29, 242n. 34 appearance(s) and alêtheia, 51–55, 113–115, 144–150 and aporia, 105, 135–136 and the deinos, 48–50 in relation to ‘what is’, xviii, 18–19, 21, 110, 140–144, 163, 232n. 30 and Socratic questioning, 6, 25–27, 47, 80–82, 86, 95–96, 113–115, 121–122, 131–132 and meletê, 101–103 See doxa See phainesthai aretê (virtue, excellence), xxi, 66–67, 88–91, 126–130, 180n. 15, 210n. 20 Aristotle, 61, 186n. 43 assessment of Socrates, 3–8, 64, 82–83, 112, 133–135, 182n. 20, 203n. 3, 215n. 46 on the phusiologoi, 65, 205n. 11 on technê, 76–78, 213n. 37, 213n. 39, 214n. 41 on the Platonic chôrismos, 112, 231n. 29, 244n. 7 on the chronology of the dialogues, 175n. 9 Benson, Hugh, 84–85, 178n. 10, 179nn. 10, 11, 180n. 14, 182nn. 16, 18, 19, 183n. 25, 211n. 25, 216nn. 50, 53, 54, 238n. 13, 240n. 21 Blanchot, Maurice, 93 Index 261 262 Index Bradley, F.H., 101 Brickhouse, T. and Smith, N.D. Brisson, Luc, 39, 193n. 12 Callias, 67–68, 95, 208n. 15, 209n. 17, 216n. 57 Charmides, 9, 60–62, 64, 88, 89, 203n. 3, 219n. 61, 239n. 16 chronology of the dialogues, xx–xxii, 175n. 9 Churchhill, Winston, xv Cicero, 5, 107, 222n.9 constructivist vs. non-constructivist interpretations, 8–12 Cratylus, 159–162, 193n. 14, 208n. 15, 244n. 10, 245n. 11 Crito, 89, 191n. 46 Croesus, 40 dei, 95–96, 145 deinos, 48–50, 55, 56, 76, 109, 115, 151, 198nn. 29, 30, 199n. 31 Delphic oracle, 40–41, 70, 178n. 2, 191n. 6, 194n. 16, 195n. 18, 196n. 20, 245n. 14 Descartes, Renè, 18–19, 186nn. 43, 44, 216n. 53 Detienne, Marcel, 39–40, 52, 192n. 10, 194n. 15, 201nn. 37, 38 Diogenes Laertius, 35, 43, 207n. 12 distance, 105, 108, 109–111, 111–115, 145–147, 151, 162–166, 232n. 30, 234n. 37, 245n. 14 divinity, 38–41, 71–72, 192nn. 7, 8, 9, 194n. 16 and Socratic philosophizing, 191n. 6, 193n. 13, 196n. 20 doxa, 19–20, 23–27, 105, 148–150, 187nn. 1, 6 doxastic constraint, 238n. 13 elenchus, xvi–xvii, 3–8, 20, 55–57, 87–91, 146–150, 173n. 5, 179n. 11, 230n. 27 and Socrates’ defense, 37, 131n. 4, 241n. 29 epideixis (demonstration), 120, 125– 126 epistêmê, 7–8, 78–79, 123, 214nn. 41, 42 eudaimonia, 75, 239n. 16 Euripides Melanippe, 41 Medea, 220n. 5 Euthydemus, 60, 70–71, 72, 78, 79, 88, 89, 211n. 26, 224n. 11 Euthyphro, 59, 89, 138–139, 221n. 7 everyday attitude, xviii, xxiii, 6, 16–17, 19, 27, 30 and Socratic questioning, 56–60, 62, 87–91, 132–133, 148–150, 150–151 and sophistry, 87–91, 125 excess, 15–17, 49–50, 54–55, 71–72, 109–111, 111–115, 145–147, 162–166 Field, G.C., 142–143, 241n. 28 Friedländer, Paul, 52–53, 153, 201n. 40, 233n. 31 Gorgias, 59–60, 62–64, 71, 79–80, 88, 89, 107, 190n. 2, 191nn. 4, 5, 195n. 19, 202n. 1, 204n. 8, 206n. 12, 217n. 59 Grube, G.M.A., 156–157, 193n. 13, 197n. 26, 232n. 30, 240n. 17, 243n. 3 Heidegger, Martin, 27–28, 51–53, 157, 187nn. 8, 9, 199nn. 31, 34, 200n. 35, 201nn. 38, 39, 40, 213n. Index 263 37, 219n. 1, 226n. 14, 239n. 15, 243n. 5 Hegel, G.W.F., 27–28, 184n. 26, 188n. 10 Heraclitus, 40–41, 238n. 15, Herodotus, 40 Hippias Major, 72, 88, 100, 239n. 16 Hölderlin, Friedrich, 38...