Editing Socratic problem (section)

== History of the problem ==
Efforts have been made by writers for centuries to address the problem. According to one scholar (Patzer) the number of works with any significance in this issue, prior to the nineteenth century, are few indeed.<ref>J Bussanich, ND Smith - [https://books.google.com/books?id=A9ZLAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA329 The Bloomsbury Companion to Socrates (please see - Note 14 & 16)] A&C Black, 3 Jan 2013 {{ISBN|1441112847}} [Retrieved 2015-04-17]</ref> [[G.E. Lessing]] caused a flurry of interest in the problem in 1768.<ref name="D Nails">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fWzD1JxPLn4C&pg=PA23 |author=D Nails|title=Agora, Academy, and the Conduct of Philosophy (p.23)|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media, 31 Jul 1995 |access-date=17 April 2015 |isbn=9780792335436 |date=31 July 1995}}</ref> A methodology for analysis was posited, by study of Platonic sources, in 1820 with Socher. A break of scholarly impasse in respect to understanding, resulted from Campbell making a [[stylometric]] analysis in 1867.<ref name="D Nails"/>

An essay written by [[Friedrich Schleiermacher]] in 1815 ("The Worth of Socrates as a Philosopher"), published 1818 (English translation 1833) is considered the most significant and influential toward developing an understanding of the problem.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_KBex4rtlXMC&pg=PR14 |author=Louis-André Dorion |title=The Cambridge Companion to Socrates |page=2 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |access-date=2015-04-16 |isbn=9780521833424 |year=2011}}</ref><ref>M Trapp - [http://www.ashgate.com/pdf/SamplePages/Socrates_from_Antiquity_to_the_Enlightenment_Intro.pdf Introduction: Questions of Socrates] [Retrieved 3 May 2015] (p.xvi)</ref>

Throughout the 20th century, two strains of interpretation arose: the literary contextualists, who tended to interpret Socratic dialogues based on literary criticism, and the analysts, who focus much more heavily on the actual arguments contained within the different texts.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/socrates/#ConIntStr |title=Socrates |encyclopedia=Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |last=Nails |first=Debra |date=February 8, 2018 |access-date=May 23, 2018}}</ref>

Early in the 21st century, most of the scholars concerned have settled to agreement instead of argument about the nature of the  significance of ancient textual sources in relation to this problem.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_KBex4rtlXMC&pg=PR14 |author1=G Klosko, Henry L. |author2=Grace Doherty  |name-list-style=amp |title=History of Political Theory: An Introduction: Volume I: Ancient and Medieval |page=40 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0199695423 |access-date=16 April 2015 |year=2011}}</ref>