How did Socrates believe that people learn best?

Socrates believed that we learn best by asking essential questions and testing tentative answers against reason and fact in a continual and virtuous circle of honest debate. We need to approach the contemporary knowledge explosion and the technologies propelling this new enlightenment in just that manner.

What made Socrates unique?

Socrates is unique among the great philosophers in that he is portrayed and remembered as a quasi-saint or religious figure.

What did Socrates always say?

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” “The unexamined life is not worth living.” “There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.” “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”

What is Socrates contribution to knowledge?

Socrates’ most important contribution to Western philosophy was his technique for arguing a point, known as the Socratic technique, which he applied to many things such as truth and justice.

What was the aim of Socrates?

Socrates’ practical aim was to examine people’s ethical beliefs in order to improve the way they live; his method for doing this was what philosophers call “conceptual analysis”.

Where can I find information on Socrates’s life and thought?

Plato and Xenophon’s dialogues provide the main source of information on Socrates’s life and thought. These writings are the Sokratikoi logoi, or Socratic dialogues, which consist of reports of conversations apparently involving Socrates.

What did Socrates learn from his father?

In accordance with Athenian custom, his father also taught him a trade, though Socrates did not labor at it on a daily basis. Rather, he spent his days in the agora (the Athenian marketplace), asking questions of those who would speak with him.

What is the problem with discerning Socrates’s philosophical views?

The problem with discerning Socrates’s philosophical views stems from the perception of contradictions in statements made by the Socrates in the different dialogues of Plato; and in later dialogues Plato used the character Socrates to give voice to views that were his own.

How trustworthy is Plato as a teacher of Socrates?

Plato was a pupil of Socrates and outlived him by five decades. How trustworthy Plato is in representing the attributes of Socrates is a matter of debate; the view that he wouldn’t have tried to alter Socratic thought (known as Tailor-Burket thesis) isn’t shared by many contemporary scholars.