The Socratic method is a way to seek truths by your own lights.

The Socratic method is a way to seek truths by your own lights.

WHAT IS THE SOCRATIC METHOD?

excerpted from Socrates Café by Christopher Phillips

The Socratic method is a way to seek truths by your own lights.

It is a system, a spirit, a method, a type of philosophical inquiry an intellectual technique, all rolled into one.

Socrates himself never spelled out a “method.” However, the Socratic method is named after him because Socrates, more than any other before or since, models for us philosophy practiced –

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