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

6 Catherine Zuckert,Plato’s Philosophers: The Coherence of the Dialogues(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009), 205. 7 Gen ...

divination (Apology, 22b–c). The point, therefore, is that the foundations of thepolisare entirely conven- tional. Given the imp ...

42 Burnet,Plato’s“Euthyphro,”“Apology”and“Crito,”151. On Socrates’inadmissibility, see Douglas M. MacDowell,The Law in Classical ...

Corey, David D. 2005.“Socratic Citizenship: Delphic Oracle and Divine Sign.”The Review of Politics67/2: 201 – 28. Craig, Leon. 1 ...

Saxonhouse, Arlene W. 2006.Free Speech and Democracy in Ancient Athens. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Seeskin, Kenneth. ...

The Socratic method is generally associated with a special type of questioning that aims at testing the consistency of an argume ...

However, this account contrasts with diverse passages within the Platonic corpus where Socrates insists on not knowing what matt ...

but so desperately need. This link betweenerosand philosophy later becomes more evident when Alcibiades identifies Socrates asEr ...

philosophy is the most profound expression of love. For this reason, Socrates knows that an erotic nature is highly deficient an ...

the young democrat to a debauched lifestyle full of conviviality. He is overwhelmed by all sorts of pleasures; and the more he f ...

Therefore, he is potentially endangered by the corruptive effects of power and democratic public opinion, both of which can harm ...

Alcibiades’inconsistency and flippancy. He thinks that by arbitrarily changing the subject, he will be able to escape Socratic r ...

its best part; that is where we find wisdom (133b).^39 Only those who know themselves by this way will make the right decisions ...

with Socrates (222c), he is unwilling to follow the way his lover illustrated in their first conver- sation, i.e.,Alcibiades I. ...

scandals, won the Olympic Games, led the Athenians to several military victories, was sentenced to death by his compatriots and ...

32 See the twenty-fifth endnote. 33 Catherine H. Zuckert,Plato’s Philosophers: The Coherence of the Dialogues(Chicago: Universit ...

Brickhouse, Thomas C. and Nicholas D. Smith. 2009.“Socratic Teaching and Socratic Method.”InThe Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of ...

InThe City and Man, Leo Strauss famously asserts that Socrates’theory of ideas“is very hard to understand; to begin with, it is ...

and Allen that, as we cannot know them through objects of sensation,“knowledge of Forms is epistemically prior to knowledge of t ...

Socrates is thus wiser than the politicians because he has knowledge of his own ignorance, whereas they do not. After the politi ...