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A thinking person’s guide to a better life. Ward Farnsworth explains what the Socratic method is, how it works, and why it matters more than ever in our time. Easy to grasp yet challenging to master, the method will change the way you think about life’s big questions. “A wonderful book.”―Rebecca Goldstein, author of Plato at the Googleplex . About 2,500 years ago, Plato wrote a set of dialogues that depict Socrates in conversation. The way Socrates asks questions, and the reasons why, amount to a whole way of thinking. This is the Socratic method―one of humanity’s great achievements. More than a technique, the method is an ethic of patience, inquiry, humility, and doubt. It is an aid to better thinking, and a remedy for bad habits of mind, whether in law, politics, the classroom, or tackling life’s big questions at the kitchen table. Drawing on hundreds of quotations, this book explains what the Socratic method is and how to use it. Chapters include Socratic Ethics , Ignorance , Testing Principles , and Socrates and the Stoics . Socratic philosophy is still startling after all these years because it is an approach to asking hard questions and chasing after them. It i

Who reads The Socratic method : a practitioner's handbook?

Author

Ward Farnsworth

Publisher

David R. Godine Publisher Inc

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781567926859

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Philosophy, Humanities

Rating

4.7 / 5 (635 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14