The Socratic Method Today Student-Centered and Transformative Teaching in Political Science

his logical argumentation but is a necessary component of these arguments and the soul’s educational journey. Socratic Method: T ...

pedagogy in two ways. First, the Socratic discussion can focus directly on moral questions that require judgment of better or wo ...

scholars disagree as to whether the contemporary teaching method can be attributed to Socrates or even if Socrates can be called ...

However, this does not imply the discussions in the dialog are haphazard or simple random deductive exercises. Plato’s dialogs a ...

to one’s nature (physis) and not being a“busybody”(polupragmonein) or interfering in the function of others (433a). Socrates res ...

“useless,”because we do not recognize their value for political systems: instead of disregarding them, we should be begging such ...

“method”or even merely to imitate Socrates’example, it is equally important to pay attention not only to the logic of his argume ...

masters. The one dragged out of the cave can first make out reflections of real things (math- ematical or geometrical thought (d ...

usually translated by political theorists as“reason”or“rationality,”has a broader meaning in Greek as“word,”a“telling,”or“story. ...

Notes 1 For discussion see Rene Saran and Barbara Neisser,“Introduction,”inEnquiring Minds: Socratic Dialogue in Education, Rene ...

26 Aristophanes,Clouds, Jeffrey Henderson, trans. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999), 889–1112. 27 Vlastos,“The Socrati ...

Jenks, Rod. 2010.How Plato’s Theory of Truth Explains Socratic Method. Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press. Kidd, Ian. 1992.“Socrat ...

The most popular understanding of Socratic method, portrayed in the 1973 movie,The Paper Chase, amounts to sophistic intimidatio ...

the individual is ignorant (asthenes). Exposing such ignorance, Socrates remarked, is“not unpleasant”(Apology, 33c). Indeed, unm ...

Socrates doing something unseemly? The most comic aspect of this parody of rhetorical cleverness occurs when Socrates claims thi ...

namely the daily association,sunousia, of father and son, younger and older generations, by which familial, tribal, and civic tr ...

And when at last thedaimoniondid not restrain him from acting on the Delphic“riddle,”he was by then an old man so that staying a ...

would choose exile, they were disappointed.^44 Eventually he proposes a fine that his friends might pay, which he could have pro ...

By this argument, the dialog is the continuation of the public cult of tragedy and Plato is the spiritual successor of Aeschylus ...

Unlike shame, moderation exists by nature and takes the form of an idea (eide).^53 For a philo- sophically inclined statesman, ...