Dialogue has always been at the core of human culture and understanding. Across ages and societies, it’s been around campfires, at dinner tables, or in the roundtable discussions of philosophers and ...

Socrates: Congratulations, Phaedrus, on your recent graduation. Phaedrus: Please don’t mention it, Socrates. Socrates: Now that you are a physician, what are you going to do? Phaedrus: I am applying ...

The Fred Friendly Seminars are based on the Socratic Method. Local discussion groups can use the same method to explore the lessons of DISCONNECTED: Politics, the Press and the Public. The Socratic ...

When we talk about education, and about tutoring in particular, we often speak of the Socratic method. Often what we mean when we refer to that method is simply something like a question-and-answer ...

Friedrich Nietzsche drew no distinction between Socrates and Plato in his diagnosis of the origin of philosophy and metaphysics. My argument will lean heavily on the scholarship of Gregory Vlastos to ...

IT SHOULD have been a night to celebrate. Portugal's centre-left Socialists won a historic victory in the election on February 20th. For the first time since the overthrow of the dictatorship in 1974, ...