The Socratic Method, named after the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates, offers a transformative approach to conversation and ...

The Socratic method remains popular in education and has also been adapted for psychotherapy. ... Socrates' method could lead to anger and resentment, which is why the Athenians put him to death.

Review of Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life. By Agnes Callard. W.W. Norton & Company. 405 pp. $35. Many know that Socrates declared that “the unexamined life is not worth living ...

The Socratic method is an active process of thinking. Its constant refrain is “Yes but . . .,” because it happily seeks out one exception after another to our definitions, assumptions, and ...

It’s tempting for a Philosophical Counselor to use the Socratic Method. After all, it was Socrates who set so many of us on the quest to live the examined life.

Key points. In a new book, Agnes Callard shows how the Socratic Method can be used to examine fundamental life issues. Socrates claimed that the object of a total, unconditional acceptance of love ...