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Record W1987343257 · doi:10.2307/4135165

The Practical Irony of the Historical Socrates

2004· article· en· W1987343257 on OpenAlex
Lowell Edmunds

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VenuePhoenix · 2004
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicClassical Philosophy and Thought
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSOCRATESIronyLiteraturePhilosophyEpistemologyArt

Abstract

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PROBABLY FROM SOCRATES' OWN TIME, certainly from Aristotle's time, irony has been a central feature in the description of the philosopher from Alopeke. importance of Socrates' irony is reflected in the title of an influential book, stemming from influential teaching and articles, by Gregory Vlastos: Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher.' In Vlastos's discussion, and generally, irony is assumed to be an exclusively verbal phenomenon. Greeks, however, down through the fourth century B.C.E., knew of a practical irony. It was an irony of manner or more broadly of style. In Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle uses Spartan dress, i.e., the imitation of Spartan dress by Athenians, as an example of irony (1127b27-28). Socrates, it will be seen, was associated by contemporaries with this particular style and thus with practical irony as defined by Aristotle. Aristotle's discussion of irony appears in a chapter on truthfulness, the mean between the extremes of boastfulness and irony. He begins: let us discuss truthful persons and untruthful persons in and in practices (rpd~4cat) and in their claims about themselves (1127a19-20). An irony of practices, a practical irony, is presupposed. Consistently with this starting point, Aristotle's whole discussion of the mean and the extremes looks to public and social context. Theophrastus follows Aristotle.2 He begins his character sketch of the ironist: would seem to be ... a pretense of the worse in practices and in words (7npoatnoorlat; Ti XEypov 7tpdx(c0v K~a X6yov, Char. 5.1 Jebb-Sandys). For a narrower, exclusively verbal sense of irony, one can compare the definition in the roughly contemporary Rhetorica adAlexandrum: is to say something while pretending not to say it or to call things by the opposite names (1434a17-18). author of this rhetorical treatise has formulated a definition in which the notion of practice is absent. Irony now has the purely verbal status that it will have in Cicero and in Quintilian (except for a single intriguing statement to be discussed below, 202).3 Vlastos, thinking of verbal irony, resolutely denied irony in Aristophanes' Clouds. The anti-hero of the Clouds is many things to many men, but an ironist to none.4 But with this comedy one can begin to describe the practical irony of the historical Socrates.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

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metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.900
Threshold uncertainty score0.341

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Opus teacher head0.046
GPT teacher head0.245
Teacher spread0.200 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it