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    In historical scholarship, the Socratic problem (also called Socratic question) concerns attempts at reconstructing a historical and philosophical image...
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    Socratic questioning (or Socratic maieutics) is an educational method named after Socrates that focuses on discovering answers by asking questions of...
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    reconstruction of his philosophy nearly impossible, a situation known as the Socratic problem. Socrates was a polarizing figure in Athenian society. In 399 BC, he...
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    The Socratic method (also known as the method of Elenchus or Socratic debate) is a form of argumentative dialogue between individuals based on asking...
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    discussion of moral and philosophical problems between two or more individuals illustrating the application of the Socratic method. The dialogues may be either...
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  • Pre-Socratic philosophy, also known as early Greek philosophy, is ancient Greek philosophy before Socrates. Pre-Socratic philosophers were mostly interested...
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  • Socratic means "related to Socrates". Socratic may also refer to: Socratic dialogue, a genre of literary prose Socratic intellectualism, a view in meta-ethics...
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    which a person accrues and improves with dedication to reason. So defined, Socratic intellectualism became a key philosophic doctrine of Stoicism. The Stoics...
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    ISBN 978-0-19-510111-9. "Socrates: 'The unexamined life is not worth living.'". The Socratic Method. Retrieved 2024-10-30. Julian Baggini - Wisdom's folly The Guardian...
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    translated by Harold North Fowler, 1966). It is also sometimes called the Socratic paradox, although this name is often instead used to refer to other seemingly...
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    which aims to solve what is now known as the problem of universals. He was influenced by the pre-Socratic thinkers Pythagoras, Heraclitus, and Parmenides...
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    Irony (redirect from Socratic irony)
    contrasting Romantic irony with that of Socrates. On Hegel's reading, Socratic irony partially anticipates his own dialectical approach to philosophy...
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  • Socrates left no written works; however, his student and friend, Plato, wrote Socratic dialogues, featuring Socrates as the protagonist. As a teacher, competitor...
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  • Problem of Socrates may refer to: The Socratic problem, how to reconstruct the life of Socrates based on limited historical evidence The Problem of Socrates...
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    of Socrates, and Crito; pp. 99–100, M. Joyal, "To Daimonion and the Socratic Problem", Apeiron vol. 38 no. 2, 2005. p. 16, Burnet, Plato's Euthyprho, Apology...
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    Eponymous concepts Socratic dialogue Socratic intellectualism Socratic irony Socratic method Socratic paradox Socratic problem Socratic questioning Category...
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    Practice, and Value in Socratic Philosophy, Kelowna 2005, pp. 43-62, here: 58-62. Mark Joyal: To Daimonion and the Socratic Problem. In: Pierre Destrée,...
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    about Everything and Nothing. Some entries include "The Jerry Problem and the Socratic Problem", "George's Failed Quest for Happiness: An Aristotelian Analysis"...
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  • The Oxford Socratic Club was a student club that met from 1942 to 1972 dedicated to providing an open forum for the discussion of the intellectual difficulties...
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  • Statesman Symposium Theaetetus Timaeus Life The Academy in Athens Socratic problem List of speakers in Plato's dialogues Legacy Unwritten doctrines List...
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  • themselves to come up with a solution to their problem. When Alex is with his wife, he finds the Socratic method as a way to fix his marriage, which he...
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    Rubber duck debugging (category Problem solving methods)
    ducking as a powerful method for solving problems. Computer programming portal Code review Pair programming Socratic method Desk checking Duck test Duck typing...
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  • The Gettier problem, in the field of epistemology, is a landmark philosophical problem concerning the understanding of descriptive knowledge. Attributed...
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  • as those adopted for the early and middle dialogues addressing the Socratic problem. Textual features of interest for authorship attribution are on the...
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  • Thessaloniki about the year 1270. The manuscript contains 35 letters, known as Socratic Letters, dated to the 2nd or 3rd century, and written by several authors...
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  • meanings. Plato used the terms eidos and idea interchangeably. The pre-Socratic philosophers, ancient Greek thinkers born before Plato, noted that appearances...
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    notation to address the confusion in Plato scholarship to address the Socratic problem in these and other papers, to disambiguate Plato's Socrates from the...
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  • Scholasticus Socratic dialogue Socratic dialogues Socratic irony Socratic method Socratic paradox Socratic problem Socratic Puzzles Socratic questioning...
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    reference to the principle that every man make his own the entire moral problem and act at the same time in an existing moral society. This condition gives...
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  • Pre-Socratic philosophy developed in ancient Greece during the 6th and 5th centuries BC. The pre-Socratic philosophers include those who preceded Socrates...
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