Socratic dialogue

FIGURE 284. Conversations on Chemistry was actually authored by Mrs. Jane Marcet. It is a beautiful teaching text that uses Socratic dialogue involving a Mrs. B. and two adolescent girls, Caroline and Emily. It inspired the young Michael Faraday s interest in chemistry and appeared in a number of editions over almost 50 years and sold over 160,000 copies. 

Secundus and Tertius hold a Socratic Dialogue on the Analysis of Multicentre Trials... 

Kahn, C. H. (1996). Plato and the socratic dialogue The philosophical use of a literary form. Cambridge Cambridge University Press. 

Plato, Meno. In this Socratic dialogue the concept generates the sophistic paradox If you don t know it already how can you recognise it. If you do know already then what is being strived for ... 

In the form of dialogue, though substantially a monologue, Timaeus is represented as explaining to Socrates his formulation of the generation and development of the physical universe. 

Here and elsewhere in the dialogue, there is no place where we can find Socrates providing direct instruction in the form of here is the answer. But the boy does come to the correct answer. In the dialogue, Socrates draws the conclusion that the boy must have already known the answer, remembered from a previous life since he had not learned it in this life. To avoid a recursion problem, Plato also asserts that the knowledge does get a start, though through divine inspiration, not from the world, at some point in the soul s journeys through the world. 

A large part of the dialogue of Plato s The Meno is a discussion of what is meant by oxT)pa. The highly respected translation of W. R. M. Lamb renders o%r pa as figure in this context. Socrates... 

But the contradiction disappears when we remember that Plato never speaks in his own name that his master Socrates always expresses himself with the modesty of doubt that the various systems are presented in the names of those who were, or were believed by Plato to be, their authors that these same Dialogues are also a seminary for Pyrrhonism and that Plato reveals at once the bold imagination of a learned man who likes to construct and elaborate brilliant hypotheses, and the reserve of a philosopher who gives rein to his imagination without allowing himself to be completely carried away by it, since his reason, fortified by salutary doubt, is well able to defend itself against even the most seductive flights of fancy. 

Socrates (469 -399 bc), Greek philosopher and teacher, about whose life and views we know mainly through the dialogues of his pupil Plato and the Memorabilia of Xenophon. 

However, imlike Socrates era when information was minimal, data now abound— usually to excess—and must enter into an organization s dialogues. Used in a modem... 

Although in all his philosophical works Cicero made extensive use of the writings of Hellenistic philosophers, above all the Stoics and Peripatetics (the school of Aristotle), and in the dialogues written after the Civil War he generally employed the form of Aristotelian dialogue - set speeches expounding different philosophical points of view rather than Socratic... 

PLATO (429-347). Pupil of Socrates, founder of the Academy, teacher of Aristotle and many others. Cicero admired his dialogues and translated some of them his Republic and Laws are the literary models for On the Commonwealth and On the Laws, although Cicero repeatedly attacks his political ideas as unrealistic and inhumane. 

C. lul. 4.15.76 is the only other Augustinian text which attributes this expression to Cicero. It is found in a fragment thought by some scholars to belong to his lost dialogue Hortensius, and is taken to refer to Socrates, Plato, and their disciples. 

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