Essays Tagged: "Socratic method"

Sophocles, life, teachings, and trial

questions. Plato portrayed Socrates as hiding behind and ironical profession of ignorance, known as Socratic irony, and possessing a mental acuity and resourcefulness that enabled him to penetrate arg ... hing, and persuading Athenians to engage in self-cultivation and examination of their souls. In the Socratic dialogues, his extended conversations with students, statesmen, and friends invariably aimi ...

(5 pages) 122 0 3.9 Dec/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy

A study on Plato, Aquinas, Anselm, and Pascal.

eeches in his own defence. It is impossible to tell where Socrates' ideas end and Plato's begin.The Socratic Method:Socrates is famous for a number of things, not least of which is his method of doing ... is his method of doing philosophy. Socrates employed a method known as dialectic. Dialectic, or the Socratic Method, is a question and answer styled conversation in which the 'expert' is examined by a ...

(13 pages) 148 1 4.6 Oct/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics

Platos republic the socratic method.

The Socratic Method is a form of teaching or arguing that is executed by asking leading questions to som ... estions to someone rather than just stating a conclusion or opinion outright. The broad goal of the Socratic Method is to ultimately have the person who is being asked the questions personally figure ... s what one should not do rather than having a normative approach of stating what should be done.The Socratic Method seems to accomplish a cycle of the refinement of ideas that leads them closer to the ...

(4 pages) 77 0 4.3 Nov/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics

The Republic of Plato, the Socratic thought process

on is weakened. Simultaneously, Socrates' investigation increases the interlocutor's knowledge. The Socratic method of questioning, paradoxically, demonstrates that knowledge increases when a belief i ... ving, but he recognizes this and endeavours to acquire it.Can we acquire knowledge by engaging in a Socratic dialogue? Perhaps it can teach us how to live freely within structure. We can start by weak ...

(4 pages) 85 1 3.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Contemporary Philosophy

Can Justice in the State Exist in the Individual? Plato

ntral topic of Plato's discussion. To outline the ethical life for an individual, Plato employs the Socratic Method to examine the virtues of the Kallipolis, the ideal just city. By better understandi ...

(12 pages) 254 0 4.5 Dec/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Contemporary Philosophy

Crtitical Thinking for the 21st Century Workplace

k philosopher who lived from approximately 469 to 399 B.C. The heart of critical thinking which the Socratic Method is is a process of using open-ended questions that helps elicit and clarify reasonin ... lity to help people slow down their thinking so that they can observe, evaluate and improve it. The Socratic Method rests on the assumption that everything has a logic that can be uncovered through qu ...

(10 pages) 489 0 4.4 Dec/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Why are you Taking Philosophy?, How would you reply if someone asked you, "why are you taking philosophy? It is an abstract and useless subject".

y, but it is an even betteranswer to why you should study philosophy.In this dialog I was using the Socratic method where by faulty reasoning and hidden assumptions are exposed by asking simple questi ...

(4 pages) 87 0 3.5 Apr/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Piety, Philosophical Problems

is question trying to find out whether or not Euthyphro possesses the meaning of piety. Through the Socratic method, Socrates attempts to show the difference between divine command theory and independ ...

(2 pages) 39 0 4.3 Apr/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy

Who has the ruling hand in the classroom, the teacher or the student?

e classroom, professors and students need to share influence over how information is delivered. The Socratic Method is teaching by asking instead of telling and is an effective form of teaching which ...

(3 pages) 134 3 4.3 Apr/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Socratic dialectic

Aim and Method: Socratic DialecticThis essay will discuss the nature of Socrates inquiries in to the way humans ough ... ood life and the importance of self knowledge. It will then look at the theory of learning that the Socratic dialectic fosters, along with Socrates' theory of the natural goodness of human nature. Usi ... le think for themselves and understand their own fallibility through the destructive process of the Socratic dialectic. Finally, it will strip the story of Euthyphro of its details and demonstrate the ...

(5 pages) 67 0 5.0 Sep/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy

Should Socrates have taken his death sentence?

Athens but demanded standards of truth and reason.Socrates instructed by what is now known as the "Socratic method". He educated his students not by memorization but by asking questions. He advised t ...

(3 pages) 60 0 1.7 Oct/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

The Sophists.

hen they could not teach the truth. Socrates perfected a style of philosophical inquiry know as the Socratic Method or dialectic. Based on the assumption that the purpose of education is to draw the t ... the purpose of education is to draw the truth out of the pupil rather than "fill an empty vessel," Socratic dialectic consists of a series of directed questions that repeatedly refine the ideas under ...

(4 pages) 48 0 0.0 Sep/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Educational Philosophy

mp; Bondi, 2002). The idealism philosophy believes in teaching through lecture and discussion, i.e. Socratic Method. The idea of teaching through lecture and class discussion is an instructional strat ... structional strategy that I use in the classroom and have found to be effective. I also utilize the Socratic Method that allows students to be presented information and allows them to analyze the info ...

(5 pages) 192 0 5.0 Apr/2007

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Socratic Dialectic, Method, and Piety

ood life and the importance of self-knowledge. It will then look at the theory of learning that the Socratic dialectic fosters, along with Socrates' theory of the natural goodness of human nature. Usi ... le think for themselves and understand their own fallibility through the destructive process of the Socratic dialectic. Finally, it will strip the story of Euthyphro of its details and demonstrate the ...

(5 pages) 28 0 0.0 Dec/2007

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Is It Dangerous to Think too M

weapons are created the inevitable mass destruction of all societies becomes evident. In this way, Socratic thought and the quest for knowledge is detrimental to a society.Pure Socratic belief is bes ... help the advancement of society.The new debate becomes, ?Is it justifiable to condemn a person for Socratic behavior?? The answer is no. Everyone should be allowed to quest for knowledge. That is why ...

(4 pages) 19 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy

Socrates: The Athenian Philosopher

mple statements, to the point that they would discover a truth. This method of teaching, called the Socratic Method, is still widely used today.During Socrates' life, Athenian democracy had several fe ...

(1 pages) 16 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

Socrates + Teaching Methods

and still most powerful, teaching tactics for fostering critical thinking is what we know today as Socratic thinking. Socrates, who we know only through Plato, was known as "the man who knew nothing" ...

(4 pages) 38 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

socrates dialect method and legally blonde

Name: Alfi Syahrini WNPM : 12111001Argumentative Essay about 'Socratic Dialect Method' and Analysis of Legally BlondeThe Socratic Method is a form of inquiry and ... Athenians after his friend Chaerephon that asked whether there was anyone wiser than Socrates. And Socratic believe that he was sent by god to help another people and he are different so he questioni ... n their mind to think about the truth.According to Gary Alan Scott in Deos Socrates have a method, "Socratic dialectic and education, taking the Charmides as guide. I argue that standard accounts of t ...

(3 pages) 3 0 0.0 Aug/2014

Subjects: History Term Papers