Every statement is closely analyzed. For example, when speaking to Polymarchus, Socrates asks “…what is justice useful for getting and using in peacetime? Contracts, Socrates. And by contracts do you mean partnerships, or what? I mean partnerships.” (Line 333a). Analogies are a prominent literary device used within Socrates’ debates to get a clear definition of the other debater’s meaning. Socrates forms analogies with medicine, horsemanship, building, and various other crafts. For example, when Socrates speaks to Polymarchus, he compares horsemanship to justice through his elenchus rhetoric; “…horsemen make people unhorsmanlike through horsemanship? No. Well, then can those who are just make people unjust though justice?” (Line 335c). Through analogies, Socrates relates his arguments to real life
Every statement is closely analyzed. For example, when speaking to Polymarchus, Socrates asks “…what is justice useful for getting and using in peacetime? Contracts, Socrates. And by contracts do you mean partnerships, or what? I mean partnerships.” (Line 333a). Analogies are a prominent literary device used within Socrates’ debates to get a clear definition of the other debater’s meaning. Socrates forms analogies with medicine, horsemanship, building, and various other crafts. For example, when Socrates speaks to Polymarchus, he compares horsemanship to justice through his elenchus rhetoric; “…horsemen make people unhorsmanlike through horsemanship? No. Well, then can those who are just make people unjust though justice?” (Line 335c). Through analogies, Socrates relates his arguments to real life