Plato’s Dialectics

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Dialectics, a process that leads us to the knowledge of the Forms and finally to the highest Form of the Good, through discussion, reasoning, questions and interpretation, has preoccupied philosophers since ancient times. Socrates practiced dialectics through the method of oral dialogue, which he called the art of "the birth of souls" (a method also called Mayan, or the method of Elenchus), which could lead, according to Socrates' intention, to confirm or refute statements, or to the so-called "aporia" in which no definitive conclusion was reached. In Plato, dialectics is a type of knowledge, with an ontological and metaphysical role, which is reached by confronting several positions to overcome opinion (doxa), a shift from the world of appearances (or "sensible") to intellectual knowledge ( or "intelligible") to the first Principles. It also involves the ordering of concepts into genera and species by the method of division, and embraces multiplicity in unity, being used to understand the whole process of enlightenment, by which the philosopher is educated so as to attain knowledge of the supreme good, the Form of Good. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.14169.80485

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