With the Socratic Method, Socrates or anyone who used this method, used certain types of questions to achieve critical thinking and to reach a truth behind what was said. While on the contrary, the Sophists thought techniques and tricks to win an argument at all cost no matter if “true” or “right.” Socrates pursed wisdom by accepting that fact that you have to question things and not just accept them for what it is.
6. Socrates envisions two possibilities to happen after he dies, either death will be nonexistent, or something will happen to the soul and may transform into something else. Socrates attitude towards death was not a bad one, because to him if either one of those two possibilities was to happen, he would not mind it happening to him. Socrates prefers not having dreams as well as, the idea he could meet the souls of other people.
7. Rationalism and empiricism differ in quite a few ways. Plato’s belief was that genuine knowledge could only be achieved through reasoning abilities, making him a rationalist. While Aristotle’s belief was, you can only gain true knowledge through the senses, this making him an empiricist. Although the ideas are different, they both seek universal