labels Clitophon as a short dialogue according to Müller's standards. Clitophon is used on this view to criticize protrepticism, for the colleagues of Socrates were only able to gain slogans and motifs surrounding justice rather than a full understanding of it. Clitophon is also a warning of how to not read protreptical dialogues and of the dangers of relying on these dialogues to gain insight. Clitophon did not want to think for himself, but rather to be told what to think by Socrates. As a replacement to protreptic speech, Slings proposes that Clitophon champions elenchus as the mode through which to attain virtue and justice by reaching aporia. See also The Tragedy of Reason References Bibliography External links Clitopho translated by George Burges Free public domain audiobook version of Clitopho translated by George Burges . Collection includes Clitopho. George Burges, translator (1855). Dialogues of Plato