Several excellent examples of the Socratic Method are portrayed in the 1973 film The Paper Chase, based on a 1970 novel by John J. Osborn, Jr., also titled The Paper Chase.

* PE Areeda, ' The Socratic Method ' ( 1996 ) 109 ( 5 ) Harvard Law Review 911-922

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* UChicago. edu-' The Socratic Method ', Elizabeth Garrett ( 1998 )

* Socratic and Scientific Method

In opposition to Schopenhauer, Nietzsche viewed tragedy as the art form of sensual acceptance of the terrors of reality and rejoicing in these terrors in love of fate ( amor fati ), and therefore as the antithesis to the Socratic Method, or the belief in the power of reason to unveil any and all of the mysteries of existence.

Critics charge that the Socratic Method has fallen into disuse, and little debate occurs in law school classrooms, which are mostly lectures.

* The Socratic Method and its Effect on Critical Thinking – An article at the Socratic Method Research Portal

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These skills — listening, recognizing each other's strengths, and supporting each other through difficulties — can apply equally well to an academic Socratic Method of questioning or problem-solving toward schoolwide improvement efforts.

Caruthers considered the law a science and the Socratic Method a necessity.

Students are taught using the Socratic Method, typical of law school pedagogy.

Euclid's notion of commensurability is anticipated in passing in the discussion between Socrates and the slave boy in Plato's dialogue entitled Meno, in which Socrates uses the boy's own inherent capabilities to solve a complex geometric problem through the Socratic Method.

* Method of elenchus, a form of debate that is the central technique of the Socratic method

Similar to the Socratic Method or Karl Popper's falsification, the researcher sets out to disprove his theory by maximizing the chance of producing negative evidence.

* The Socratic Method ( 2001 )

His most famous pupil, Arrian, studied under him when a young man ( c. 108 AD ) and claimed to have written the famous Discourses from his lecture notes, though some argue they should be considered an original composition by Arrian, comparable to the Socratic literature.

No works by Socrates himself survive, but his younger friend Plato composed numerous ' Socratic dialogues ', with Socrates as the main character.

In comparison, Socrates accepted no fee, instead professed a self-effacing posture, which he exemplified by Socratic questioning ( i. e. the Socratic method, although Diogenes Laertius wrote that Protagoras — a sophist — invented the " Socratic " method ).

The Socratic method is a negative method of hypothesis elimination, in that better hypotheses are found by steadily identifying and eliminating those that lead to contradictions.

W. K. C. Guthrie in The Greek Philosophers sees it as an error to regard the Socratic method as a means by which one seeks the answer to a problem, or knowledge.

The Parmenides shows Parmenides using the Socratic method to point out the flaws in the Platonic theory of the Forms, as presented by Socrates ; it is not the only dialogue in which theories normally expounded by Plato / Socrates are broken down through dialectic.

Therefore, myth and the Socratic method are not meant by Plato to be incompatible ; they have different purposes, and are often described as the " left hand " and " right hand " paths to the good and wisdom.

Socratic circles generally start with an open-ended question either by the leader or asked from participants to encourage critical thinking and to develop skills.

The Socratic method is widely used in contemporary legal education by most law schools in the United States.

The employment of the Socratic method has some uniform features but can also be heavily influenced by the temperament of the teacher.

Therefore it is only suitable as a medium for the Socratic method where the principles are known by teachers and likely to be known by students.

* Project Gutenberg: Works by Xenophon ( includes some Socratic works )

* Project Gutenberg: Works by Cicero ( includes some works in the " Socratic dialogue " format )

The word dialectic originated in ancient Greece, and was made popular by Plato in the Socratic dialogues.

In Plato's dialogues and other Socratic dialogues, Socrates attempts to examine someone's beliefs, at times even first principles or premises by which we all reason and argue.

However, important as this objective is, the principal aim of Socratic activity seems to be to improve the soul of his interlocutors, by freeing them from unrecognized errors.

As in the Socratic dialectic, Hegel claimed to proceed by making implicit contradictions explicit: each stage of the process is the product of contradictions inherent or implicit in the preceding stage.

He describes ideology as rather like teaching philosophy by the Socratic method, but without extending the vocabulary beyond what the general reader already possessed, and without the examples from observation that practical science would require.

The Babylonian text Dialogue of Pessimism contains similarities to the agonistic thought of the sophists, the Heraclitean doctrine of contrasts, and the dialogs of Plato, as well as a precursor to the maieutic Socratic method developed by Socrates.

The Timaeus, a Socratic dialogue written by Plato, mirrors that identification with Athena, possibly as a result of the identification of both goddesses with war and weaving.

Both Merlin Donald and the Socratic authors such Plato and Aristotle emphasize the importance of mimesis, often translated as imitation or representation.

The Philosophie der Griechen has been translated into English by S. F. Alleyne ( 2 vols, 1881 ) in sections: S. F. Alleyne, History of Greek Philosophy to the time of Socrates ( 1881 ); O. J. Reichel, Socrates and the Socratic Schools ( 1868 ; 2nd ed.

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In his works Plato makes extensive use of the Socratic dialogues in order to discuss contrary positions within the context of a supposition.

Plato, as the speaker Timaeus, refers to the Demiurge frequently in the Socratic dialogue Timaeus, circa 360 BC.

However, since the teachers associated with perennialism are in a sense the authors of the Western masterpieces themselves, these teachers may be open to student criticism through the associated Socratic method, which, if carried out as true dialogue, is a balance between students, including the teacher promoting the discussion.

Perennialists believe that reading is to be supplemented with mutual investigations ( between the teacher and the student ) and minimally-directed discussions through the Socratic method in order to develop a historically oriented understanding of concepts.

This is a major goal of the Socratic discussions.

It was one of the earliest Socratic schools.

The teaching is Socratic, typically with small classes, and often boasts a lower student-to-teacher ratio than at large universities ; professors teaching classes are allowed to concentrate more on their teaching responsibilities than primary research professors or graduate student teaching assistants, in contrast to the instruction common in universities.

The general method of such philosophers was elenkhos, more widely known today as the Socratic method.

The Socratic school of classical political philosophy, especially Aristotle, had become a major influence upon European political thinking in the late Middle Ages.

Leo Strauss argued that the strong influence of Xenophon, a student of Socrates more known as an historian, rhetorician and soldier, was a major source of Socratic ideas for Machiavelli, sometimes not in line with Aristotle.

Strauss however sees this also as a sign of major innovation in Machiavelli, because classical materialists did not share the Socratic regard for political life, while Machiavelli clearly did.

The antecedents of Western politics can be traced back to the Socratic political philosophers, Plato ( 427 – 347 BC ), Xenophon ( c. 430 – 354 BC ), and Aristotle (" The Father of Political Science ") ( 384 – 322 BC ).

In " Gorgias ," one of his Socratic Dialogues, Plato defines rhetoric as the persuasion of ignorant masses within the courts and assemblies.

Socratic Puzzles ( 1997 ) is a collection of papers that range in topic from Ayn Rand and Austrian economics to animal rights, while his last production, Invariances ( 2001 ), applies insights from physics and biology to questions of objectivity in such areas as the nature of necessity and moral value.

Some entries include " The Jerry Problem and the Socratic Problem ," " George's Failed Zest for Happiness: An Aristotelian Analysis ," " Elaine's Moral Character ," " Kramer the ' Seducer '," " Making Something Out of Nothing: Seinfeld, Sophistry and the Tao ," " Seinfeld, Subjectivity, and Sartre ," " Mr. Peterman, the Wicked Witch of the West, and Me ," and " Minimally Decent Samaritans and Uncommon Law.

This is in part because of the influence of the definition of knowledge as " justified true belief " often associated with a theory discussed near the end of the Socratic dialogue Theaetetus.

His Socratic writings, preserved complete, along with the dialogues of Plato, are the only surviving representatives of the genre of Sokratikoi logoi.

The Babylonian text Dialog of Pessimism contains similarities to the agonistic thought of the sophists, the Heraclitean doctrine of contrasts, and the dialogs of Plato, as well as a precursor to the maieutic Socratic method of Socrates.