TY - JOUR TI - What Socrates Learned From Parmenides. Part 2. Hypothesis, Antilogy, and Philosophical Self-Defense in the Phaedo AU - Larivée, Annie TI - What Socrates Learned From Parmenides. Part 2. Hypothesis, Antilogy, and Philosophical Self-Defense in the Phaedo AB - My first study identified the cognitive abilities and argumentative skills developed by the gymnasia presented in Plato’s Parmenides. Since the correspondence with the intellectual virtues Socrates displays in other dialogues is too remarkable to be a coincidence, I concluded that Socrates must have trained with Parmenides’ eightfold routine in his youth. My second study supports this conclusion by drawing attention to textual evidence found in the Phaedo. The autobiographical account Socrates shares in that dialogue indicates how the gymnasia impacted his intellectual development, mostly through the action of hypothesizing. This strategic move used by the Eleatics transformed the originally sectarian way Socrates related to Forms and enabled him to protect his theory from attacks in a secure yet non-dogmatic way. VL - 2024 IS - Volume 56 PY - 2024 SN - 0078-6500 C1 - 2657-5337 SP - 119 EP - 138 DO - 10.4467/00786500.ORG.24.008.20210 UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/organon/article/what-socrates-learned-from-parmenides-part-2-hypothesis-antilogy-and-philosophical-self-defense-in-the-phaedo KW - pedagogy KW - elenchos KW - antilogy KW - gymnasia KW - hypothesis