Socrates · Philosophy

The Socratic Method

Socrates’s revolutionary way of philosophizing - not by lecturing but by relentless questioning, exposing the contradictions in what people only thought they knew.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned how Socrates pursued truth by questioning every assumption until contradictions appeared. Two thousand years later, Descartes pursued certainty by a similar method of radical doubt. State how Descartes turned doubt into a tool.

Leads to Descartes.

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