Abstract

SANSON JUNIOR, Jacir Silvio. An extra logic route for the search of truth in the platonic dialogues. discus.filos [online]. 2015, vol.16, n.26, pp.13-31. ISSN 0124-6127.  https://doi.org/10.17151/difil.2015.16.26.2.

This paper aims at showing and marking the presence of an extra logic route in the Socratic dialogues. In the Platonic text the recurrence of this pathway is frequent. It is indeed a dimension that adds to the logical-rational way of a philosophical conversation, such as Socrates typically undertook it according to his method, the maieutic. We accomplished this by going over some works, especially Euthyphro and Hippias minor, Lysis and The Banquet in order to emphasize the role of human-affective elements on the discourse, which sometimes incite and other times harm the dialogue. This way contributes by the perspicacity of addressing, simultaneously the unfolding of philosophical search for truth, the influence of emotional, psychological, moral and even institutional aspects. We conclude that an extra logic route is registered textually, and it receives equal recognition at the discursive level of the arguments. It is constituted during the course of the methodological articulation and it is eminently philosophical in its roots.

Keywords : Platonic dialogues; dialectic; maieutics; truth.

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