Re: MARCH TPT, The Socratic Method

[Jack Uretsky <jlu@HEP.ANL.GOV>]

On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Richard Hake wrote, in part:
> The Socratic Method used so successfully by the above is NOT derived
> from the FICTIONAL Socrates of Plato's imagination as depicted in
> Meno (1,2), but rather from the REAL historical Socrates as
> researched by the late great Gregory Vlastos (7-10).
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> 8. G. Vlastos, "Socrates, Ironist and Moral Philosopher," (Cornell
> Univ. Press, 1991), esp. Chap. 2, "Socrates contra Socrates in Plato."
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        OK, so I got ref. 8.  I find that Vlastos' principal source for
"the real Socrates" is Plato.  The only other near contemporary is
Xenophon, whom Vlastos dismisses as thoroughly dishonest.
        Also, I can only keep the book for two weeks.
        So, please help me out, somebody.  Where is the part that says
that the account in Meno is fiction?  I have been unable to find it.
                                Regards,
                                        Jack