Notes
1 For discussion see Rene Saran and Barbara Neisser,“Introduction,”inEnquiring Minds: Socratic
Dialogue in Education, Rene Saran and Barbara Neisser, eds. (Sterling: Trentham Books, 2004), 1–8; Jack
Schneider,“Socrates and the Madness of Method,”Kappan94/1 (2012): 26–9; Robert D. Whipple, Jr.,
Socratic Method and Writing Instruction(Lanham: University Press of America, 1997), 1–17.
2 Leonard Nelson,Socratic Method and Critical Philosophy, Thomas K. Brown III, trans. (New York:
Dover, 1949), 11; Wilbert McKeachie,Mckeachie’sTeachingTips(New York: Houghton Mifflin,
1999), 52.
3 Martha Nussbaum,Not for Profit(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012), 1–10, 102.
4 Schneider,“Socrates and the Madness of Method,” 27 – 9.
5 Peter Boghossian,“Socratic Pedagogy,”Educational Philosophy and Theory44/7 (2012): 710–20.
6 Jamie Linzet al.,“Socrates Was a Bad Teacher,”Independent School60/1 (2000): 84–7.
7 Dieter Birnbacher and Dieter Krohn,“Socratic Dialogue and Self-Directed Learning,”inEnquiring
Minds: Socratic Dialogue in Education, Rene Saran and Barbara Neisser, eds. (Sterling: Trentham,
2004), 23–4.
8 Peter Kreeft,Socratic Logic(South Bend: St. Augustine’s Press, 2005), 348–50.
9 Schneider,“Socrates and the Madness of Method,”29.
10 See for example, Saran and Neisser,“Introduction,” 4 – 5; Rebecca Bensen Cain,The Socratic Method
(London: Continuum, 2007), 8–10.
11 Richard Paul and Linda Elder,Thinkers Guide to Socratic Questioning(Tomales: Foundation for Critical
Thinking Press, 2016), 16, 18–19; Nussbaum,Not for Profit,81–102.
12 Saran and Neisser,“Introduction,”1.
13 Nelson,Socratic Method and Critical Philosophy, 16; see also David H. Elkind and Freddy Sweet,“The
Socratic Approach to Character Education,”Educational Leadership54/8 (1997): 59.
14 Linda B. Nilson,Teaching at Its Best(New York: Jossey-Bass, 2010), 138. See also Saran and Neisser,
“Introduction,” 1 – 4.
15 Haris Delic and Senad Becirovic,“Socratic Method as an Approach to Teaching,”European Researcher
111/10 (2016): 511–17; see also Birnbacher and Krohn,“Socratic Dialogue and Self-Directed Learning,”
11 – 13.
16 Saran and Neisser,“Introduction,”3.
17 Ibid., 10.
18 Paul and Elder,Thinkers Guide to Socratic Questioning, 71.
19 Kreeft,Socratic Logic, 348.
20 Paul and Elder,Thinkers Guide to Socratic Questioning, 69.
21 Cf. Kenneth Seeskin,Dialogue and Discovery(Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987), 5–7,
37 – 8, 149; Whipple,Socratic Method and Writing Instruction,1–17; Gary Alan Scott,“Introduction,”in
Does Socrates Have a Method?, Gary Alan Scott, ed. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University,
2002), 1–18; Cain,The Socratic Method,3–10; Thomas C. Brickhouse and Nicholas D. Smith,“Socratic
Teaching and Socratic Method,”inThe Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Education, Harvey Siegel, ed.
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 177–94; E. Moustsopoulos,“Moderation and Kairos in the
Philosophy of Socrates,”inThe Socratic Tradition: Questioning as Philosophy and Method,Matti
Sintonen, ed. (London: College Publications, 2009), 89–93;Rod Jenks,HowPlato’s Theory of Truth
Explains Socratic Method(Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2010), 1–25; David O’Connor,“Socrates
as Educator,”inA Companion to Ancient Education, W. Martin Bloomer, ed. (Malden: Wiley Blackwell,
2015), 77–89.
22 Plato,The Apology, Harold North Fowler, trans. (Cambridge: Harvard, 2005). All subsequent citations will
be taken from this edition; unless otherwise noted, all translations are the authors from the Greek text of this
edition.
23 See Plato,Apology, 23a, 21a; Plato,Meno, W.R.M. Lamb, trans. (Cambridge: Harvard, 1924), 71b; Plato,
The Gorgias, W.R.M. Lamb, trans. (Cambridge: Harvard, 1925), 509a; Plato,The Republic, Paul Shorey,
trans. (Cambridge: Harvard, 1925), 337e; Plato,Euthydemus, W.R.M. Lamb, trans. (Cambridge: Harvard,
1924), 293a. All subsequent citations will be taken from these editions; unless otherwise noted, all
translations are the authors from the Greek text of these editions.
24 Jenks,How Plato’s Theory of Truth Explains Socratic Method, 8; see also Gregory Vlastos,“The Socratic
Elenchus,”inOxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Julia Annas, ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press,
1983), 27–58.
25 Jacqueline de Romilly,The Great Sophists in Periclean Athens, Janet Lloyd, trans. (Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 1992), 5–30.
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