Socratic method

The Socratic Method was illustrated in this film by Kingsfield, the professor of Hart’s contract law course. Kingsfield believes that the Socratic Method helps one to analyze the facts, trains the mind and keeps the class constantly thinking. This pedagogical tool for learning the law includes both strengths and weaknesses. The…

The Socratic Method is a tool used in many classrooms in order to engage students; the method is named after the philosopher Socrates. It ultimately teaches a deeper level of critical thinking amongst students by requiring them to repeatedly evaluate a claim they previously made in order to better perform multiple learning strategies. The author Jill Avery begins by introducing the “case method” stating “many educators use it [in order] to help their students strengthen their critical thinking…

Plato is widely considered the most pivotal figure in the development of philosophy. He is from ancient Greece and is one of the most renown classical Greek philosophers. He was an idealist/ rationalist – “what could be?” Plato is also the founder of the Academy of Athens, which is believed to be the first institution of higher learning in the western world. His philosophy was interested in three areas: platonic epistemology, metaphysics, ethics. One thing that I think about when I read…

conception of freedom from a negative one to a positive one when he was influenced to succumb his theories to Socrates’ challenges. Socrates manages to take Glaucon out of this dark cave where Glaucon encourages being a slave to his desires through this method of challenging, reasoning, and alternative. The process in which Socrates “turns Glaucon’s head” throughout The Republic helps develop Plato communicate his idea of the ideal republic that transcends individuals’ own self gain to readers…

discussion.” The exercise is well known to the Western world as the Socratic method. The Greek called this method “elenchus,” which often refers as refutation. Other words that can be used to describes the term are acquisitioning, testing, probing, questioning, counter-question, inquiring, investigating, or cross-examining. Because of this, it is very popular in today use of interrogate, proof, or examination in the law of court. This method according to Christopher Meckstroth, consisted of…

attended the trail. Plato s Apology is the principal text on which Kierke-gaard relies in arguing for the idea that Socrates is fundamentally an ironist. While the Apology is more of a speech than a dialogue, there are multiple examples of the Socratic method and the use of irony throughout the…

wonder, what does it really mean to be religious? Using the Socratic Method and cross examination along with the dialectical method I provided Sandy with multiple questions regarding the means of being religious in hopes of finding and comprehending the excellence it implements in her life, the life of her family, and the lives of others. Through this intricate process I had the ability to broaden my knowledge on Socrates and the Socratic Method and now understand the concept a great deal more…

The Apology is a dialogue that consists of Socrates defence speech at his trial in Athens. The term comes from the Greek word ‘Apologia’, meaning ‘speech in defence of’, and not as it may seem an apology for his actions, in fact, it is quite the contrary in which he defends not only himself, but since he is the archetype of the Philosopher, philosophy and the philosophical way of life too. Further arguing that “examining both myself and others is really the very best thing a man can do, and that…

In his emphasis on virtue and the search for guidance within it, Socrates applies his Socratic method in the Euthyphro, the Apology, and the Crito as a means to alter the fixed mindsets and behaviors of the antagonists that surround him. For example, the individual responsibility of moral obligation is defended by Socrates’ conceptual mode of his philosophical method in his tearing down of his subjects’ preconceived notions on a topic, such as that of ‘What is piety?’ in Plato’s Euthyphro. In…

draw parallels between his knowledge and the knowledge of Socrates presented via Plato’s Gorgias. I will argue that Cyrus’s success as leader of the world’s most powerful empire could not have come to fruition without his utilization of the Socratic method of thought and questioning throughout his development as a boy, youth, and mature man. Specifically, I will connect…