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1. Had he not survived, we would not have had Plato"s Socratic dialogues
2. The Socratic philosophy in this view holds that life is impoverished when we deny beauty its place
3. You know, the Socratic method
4. Socrates (469 – 399 BC) was a Greek philosopher whose method of inquiry (the Socratic method) was based on debating moral issues with those around him: he systematically questioned his pupils and cross-examined them to expose inconsistencies and errors
5. prisoners in the Socratic simile of the cave, where “the truth would be literally nothing but the
6. “The action was its own reward?” she acted the role of her own Socratic mentor
7. Socrates’ position was instead revisited by Karl Popper, who strongly adheres to Socratic thinking and invites all thinkers, both philosophers and scientists, to become humble in their thinking and their actions and to not assume absolute positions
8. Once one starts Socratic reasoning, why this and therefore that, passion flies
9. 'But in no single instance do we discover in the book of Psalms, or in the poetical books, or in the book of collected Proverbs, or weighty sayings of the wise, or in the Prophets, the expression of the Socratic hope of eternal life, founded on man's essential nature as eternal
10. He also possessed a philosophic bent, to the great delight of his grandfather, who used to hold Socratic conversations with him, in which the precocious pupil occasionally posed his teacher, to the undisguised satisfaction of the womenfolk
11. Still we observe in him the remains of the old Socratic doctrine, that true knowledge must be elicited from within, and is to be sought for in ideas, not in particulars of sense
12. Lastly at the head of the board was the young poet who found a refuge from his labours of pedagogy and metaphysical inquisition in the convivial atmosphere of Socratic discussion, while to right and left of him were
13. Over time, I have found the most instructive way to teach is by the Socratic method, namely, by vigorous question and answer format
14. By now you have gained a reputation about matters financial equal to that of your uncle, but unlike him you are not given to Socratic teaching
15. At first they are overawing; their calm self-collectedness of simplicity seems a Socratic wisdom
16. And the two shades walked on, while the soul of Ctesippus, released by sleep from its mortal envelop, flew after them, greedily absorbing the tones of the clear Socratic speech
