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This book greatly enriches our understanding of the Socratic elenchus, especially in relation to philosophy as a way of living. It will be insightful for scholars interested in the Gorgias, but also in the interplay between reason and emotion in the dialogues. I highly recommend this book. --Marina Berzins McCoy, author of Plato on the Rhetoric of Philosophers and Sophists Clearly, a lot of ink has been spilt by scholars about Socratic method and the particular dialogues taken up in Metcalf's monograph, but what he has to offer is both new and persuasive. The philosophical and scholarly work that Metcalf does in his introduction is more than many scholars manage in an entire monograph. Refreshingly fruitful and brilliant. --Jill Gordon, author of Plato's Erotic World: From Cosmic Origins to Human Death

Clearly, a lot of ink has been spilt by scholars about Socratic method and the particular dialogues taken up in Metcalf's monograph, but what he has to offer is both new and persuasive. The philosophical and scholarly work that Metcalf does in his introduction is more than many scholars manage in an entire monograph. Refreshingly fruitful and brilliant. --Jill Gordon, author of Plato's Erotic World: From Cosmic Origins to Human Death This book greatly enriches our understanding of the Socratic elenchus, especially in relation to philosophy as a way of living. It will be insightful for scholars interested in the Gorgias, but also in the interplay between reason and emotion in the dialogues. I highly recommend this book. --Marina Berzins McCoy, author of Plato on the Rhetoric of Philosophers and Sophists

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Robert Metcalf is a professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado, Denver.

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