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Socrates

Classical Greek philosopher known for dialectic method of questioning.

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Also known as A Socrates

First appearance: iii the platonic educational philosophy

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Referenced indirectly through the Greek dilemma about learning: 'How can we learn?

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Reflection in Experience
Referenced indirectly through the Greek dilemma about learning: 'How can we learn? For either we know already what we are after, or else we do not know.'
III: Science or Rationalized Knowledge
Cited as declaring that consciousness of ignorance is the beginning of effective love of wisdom.
Physical and Social Studies: Naturalism and Humanism
Socrates appears as a thinker who believed science of nature was not attainable or very important, focusing instead on the nature and end of man.
The Historic Background of Humanistic Study
Socrates appears as the philosopher who thought science of nature was not attainable or important, focusing instead on the nature and end of man.
Philosophy of Education
Referenced indirectly through the Sophists and the philosophical questions about virtue, knowledge, and learning that arose in Athenian education.
The Nature of Philosophy
Referenced implicitly through the Sophists and the Athenian context of philosophical origins tied to educational questions.
III: Intelligence and Character
Socrates is referenced in the context of the Socratic-Platonic teaching that no man does evil knowingly, linking knowledge and virtue.

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