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

Contents

List of Contributors ix

Introduction: The Socratic Method Today 1

LEE TREPANIER

PART I

The Socratic Method in Plato’s Dialogs 7

1 Poetic Questions in the Socratic Method 9

MARLENE K.SOKOLON

2 Socratic Method and Existence 22

BARRY COOPER

3 GuidingErosToward Wisdom inAlcibiades I 35

VANESSA JANSCHE

4 Skepticism and Recollection in Socrates 47

ANN WARD

PART II

The Socratic Method and Other Approaches 57

5 The Socratic Method in Plato and Kant 59

STEVEN F.MCGUIRE

6 The Americanization of the Socratic Method 70

ANDREW BIBBY

7 The Socratic Method and John Dewey 81

DAVID W.LIVINGSTONE

8 The Courage of the Socratic Method 94

JORDON B.BARKALOW