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On Socrates' Dialectic

Posted on:2007-07-08Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H Y WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360242462770Subject:Marxist philosophy
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Dialectic is always seen in our lives. So that we don't think about when using it and take it for granted that it is a kind of way we look on the problem and is a way contrary to metaphysics. In fact, this meaning of the conception is far from so and doesn't limit to method .It has its source of history and more important value and meaning!Dialectic came forth from ancient Greece. It goes through a endless process when run to Socrates. This period, the conception of it has much expansion, but Socrates endures with his dialectic special meaning and mission. His dialectic impels the existing individual to wake up to subjectivity and creates the rationalistic tradition in western history ,at the same time ,establishes a kind of people's philosophy which connects epistemology with moral philosophy .In this way, the dialectic's meaning is becoming more abundant . Because this fact, it is essential to figure out the history of dialectic in ancient Greece, and the historic inevitability of dialectic's producing. It is also necessary to know the Socrates dialectic's meaning and its character and its function to subjectivity and the relation of knowledge with virtue, so that we can have a better understanding about Socrates'mission and his fate inevitability.Socrates disentangles the archaic dialectic from the subjective and sensorial use to rational philosophy thinking way. When discussing with others, Socrates adopts catechetical way, always claims that"he knows he doesn't know", so that he is always in the station of being asker .Actually, he always uses question to induce the other side and prescribes the method of dialectic, consequently incline to the virtue itself and universal conception with the not absolute nonobjective way or logos . Socrates dialectic is fit for the philosophy's inherent development. When we take our views from nature to the land of the living ,from being,resource to spirit,go, we could pursue people's survival freedom and find the most virtue.There are many issues to be discussed in this article ,such as Socrates dialectic's producing historic inevitability, his dialectic's conception ,character and its connection with Socrates idea, and how to valuate the relation between virtue with knowledge ,and how Socrates to enlighten the man's subjectivity and rational thinking. From this article, the author tries to make people to think Socrates dialectic over again from theory and to awaken the inherent subjective consciousness. So as to survey ourselves'existence!...
Keywords/Search Tags:Socrates dialectic, historical inevitability, virtue, character, meaning
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