It can be, if you do it correctly. Keep in mind that Socratic dialogues, whether they be of Plato or Peter Kreeft, are always a set-up job
If you are willing to get yourself killed, go for it. The Socratic Method invariably comes across as arrogant and annoying, not to speak of disingenuous (that’s certainly how your posts come across to me). So unless you have the kind of dedication Socrates did, you’d do better to pick another method.
Would you say that wisdom is a virtue?
What is the correct way to imitate Socrates, ABC?It can be, if you do it correctly. Keep in mind that Socratic dialogues, whether they be of Plato or Peter Kreeft, are always a set-up job
Do you remember what happened to Socrates?
Using questions to extract your interlocutor’s view points and calling to attention any contradictions. The written dialogues have a point to prove. Consider Kreeft’s “The Unaborted Socrates.” He obviously wanted to use the SM to show that abortion is wrong, but someone could just as well do that for the other side. Plato does the same things in his more advanced dialogues such as The Republic. A good use of the SM never makes a positive point, but only exposes inconsistencies in others. If any positive point is made, it is because all other possibilities are rendered false, given the presuppositions of the argument (which themselves might be incorrect).
That’s not necessarily a good thing.
So show how it’s bad.
Do you believe Edwin that things are always as the appear when it comes to what a person says?
I would say, MM, that wisdom is what enables a person to know what is virtue and what is not. Whether wisdom is itself a virtue is something i would be willing to explore. Do you believe wisdom is a virtue? If so, please explain why.
Yes, VH. Do you remember what happened to Jesus? More importantly, do you think they were both unjustly murdered for the similar reasons?Do you remember what happened to Socrates?
By and large the Socratic method has been rejected by most disciplines and professions – law being an exception.
Well, if you want to explore Socrates’ reason for drinking poison rather than escaping, you could read Plato’s Crito and Phaedo. If you want to explore Jesus’ reasons for not letting the cup of death pass Him but going to the excruciating pain of crucifixion for you and me, you might read the Gospels.So show how it’s bad.
Remember, the originator of the Socratic Method was given the choice of taking poison or getting the heck out of Dodge.
Do you?
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What do you think?
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Socrates makes an extremely interesting comparison of lawyers to philosophers in Theaetetus, WJP, would you like me to type what he said?
Yes.
Do you think this is wise?
Don’t get sick – there are doctors who will not accept lawyers as patients.
Socrates was not Jesus.
No. Socrates did not come to earth to save mankind.