Socratic Didactic
Online Socratic dialogue on various topics. The first topic for discussion will be the short parable The Blind Men and the Elephant. The opening question is: What are your initial thoughts on this parable?
Socrates was a Greek philosopher who lived over 2000 years ago (470-399 BCE
). He was a citizen of Athens, which had no public universities at that time. Socrates roamed the streets and central markets engaging crowds of young people in philosophical conversation and debate. He called these forums “thinking shops.” Socrates’ rhetorical style of posing questions to every student’s answer focused on the critical reasoning behind their claim of knowledge and/or virtue.
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