Socratic+Method

It is a form of [|philosophical] inquiry. It typically involves two speakers at any one time, with one leading the discussion and the other agreeing to certain assumptions put forward for his acceptance or rejection. The method is credited to [|Socrates], who began to engage in such discussions with his fellow [|Athenians] after Socrates' friend from youth, Chaerephon, visited the [|Oracle of Delphi]. The [|Oracle of Delphi] confirmed [|Socrates] to be the wisest man in [|Athens]. [|Socrates] interpreted this as a paradox, and began utilizing the Socratic method in order to get his conundrum answered. [|Diogenes Laertius], however, wrote that [|Protagoras] invented the “Socratic” method.[|[1]][|[2]] The practice involves asking a series of questions surrounding a central issue, and answering questions of the others involved. Generally, this involves the defense of one point of view against another and is oppositional. The best way to 'win' is to make the opponent contradict themselves in some way that proves the inquirer's own point. Plato famously formalized the Socratic Elenctic style in prose — presenting Socrates as the curious questioner of some prominent Athenian interlocutor — in some of his early dialogues, such as //[|Euthyphro]// or //[|Ion]//, and the method is most commonly found within the so-called "Socratic dialogues", which generally portray Socrates engaging in the method and questioning his fellow citizens about moral and [|epistemological] issues. The term **Socratic Questioning** is used to describe a kind of questioning in which an original question is responded to as though it were an answer. This in turn forces the first questioner to reformulate a new question in light of the progress of the discourse.
 * Method of Elenchus** or **Socratic Debate**) is a [|dialectic] method of inquiry, largely applied to the examination of key moral concepts and first described by [|Plato] in the //[|Socratic Dialogues]//. For this, [|Socrates] is customarily regarded as the father of Western [|ethics] or moral philosophy.

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