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Imaginary Hierarchies: Theory and the Representation of Difference
Unformatted Document Text:  37 1953), p. 7, seems to equate exetasis with elenchos, which I believe is a mistake: “Such is the Socratic elenchus, often referred to also as exetasis or scrutiny, and as basanismos or assay.” W. Thomas Schmid, “Socrates’ Practice of Elenchus in Charmides,” Ancient Philosophy 1 (1981): 141-47, is somewhat critical of Robinson and describes the elenchus as more pedagogical than destructive. Charles H. Kahn, Plato and the Socratic Dialogue. The philosophical use of a literary form (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), p. 90, believes: "The examination (exetasis) and testing (elenchos) is largely negative in its immediate outcome. Socrates seeks to bring the interlocutor to a proper sense of his own inadequacy, and hence of his need `to care for himself' (36C) (epimeleisthai heautou) or `to care for his soul (29E 2, 30B 2) (psuche),' that it

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1953), p. 7, seems to equate exetasis with elenchos, which I believe is a mistake: “Such is the
Socratic elenchus, often referred to also as exetasis or scrutiny, and as basanismos or assay.” W.
Thomas Schmid, “Socrates’ Practice of Elenchus in Charmides,” Ancient Philosophy 1 (1981):
141-47, is somewhat critical of Robinson and describes the elenchus as more pedagogical than
destructive. Charles H. Kahn, Plato and the Socratic Dialogue. The philosophical use of a
literary form (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), p. 90, believes: "The examination
(exetasis) and testing (elenchos) is largely negative in its immediate outcome. Socrates seeks to
bring the interlocutor to a proper sense of his own inadequacy, and hence of his need `to care for
himself' (36C) (epimeleisthai heautou) or `to care for his soul (29E 2, 30B 2) (psuche),' that it


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