Dialectic in Action: An Examination of Plato's Crito by M. C. Stokes, Michael C. Stokes Dialectic in Action: An Examination of Plato's Crito by M. C. Stokes, Michael C. Stokes PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad Plato's Crito examines a single moral decision, whether Socrates ought to escape from his death-cell. Stokes's book discusses Socrates' arguments against Crito's offer of escape. It construes Socrates' questions as genuine questions, which clarify and undermine Critos positions. Stokes's approach avoids the "documentary fallacy"; it shows how Plato catered for both the novice and the experienced reader of his published works. This book offers a fresh account of Socrates' whole strategy. It demonstrates both the shakiness of Socrates' persuasion of the un-philosophical Crito to engage in dialectic, and the coherence of his substantive confutation. Plato's reasoning emerges from Stokes's study wit...