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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 1 of 3 1 2 3 A Word for Saturday #83864 10/19/02 08:08 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 W wwh OP Carpal Tunnel OP wwh Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 About a year and a half ago,tsuwm mentioned maieutic mostly because it had four vowels in a row, mentioning only very briefly its application to Socrates' teaching method. "Søren Kierkegaard's method, dictated by his volatile and provocative temperament, resembles that of a fiction writer: he engages in multiple impersonations, assuming various poses and voices with an impartial vivacity. The method is, in one of his favorite words, maieutic, from the Greek term for midwifery, like that of his beloved model Socrates, who in his questioning style sought to elicit his auditors' ideas rather than impose his own." I would be surprised to find that Socrates would have welcomed the term being applied to his activities. So far as I know, there were no male "midwives" in his day, and I suspect the men of his era would have resented the term being applied to them. maieutic adj. Gr maieutikos < maia, midwife, orig., mother: see MAIA6 designating or of the Socratic method of helping a person to bring forth and become aware of latent ideas or memories I finally found a site that stated Socrates did compare his method to that of a midwife: http://www.shimer.edu/deans/response_jw.htm Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: A Word for Saturday #83865 10/20/02 01:38 AM Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 742 Akina S sjm old hand sjm old hand S Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 742 Akina Sonnabendsorry, couldn't resist Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: A Word for Saturday #83866 10/20/02 11:54 AM Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... W Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Wordwind Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... Fascinating article, wwh. Thanks very much for posting the link. I especially enjoyed reading the arguments about discussions that should be aborted and those that should be tended carefully with attention taken into which hands the precious ideas should be given. Some audiences would misuse precious information. So, it becomes a point of responsibility to the 'facilitator' (term in the article) to choose the parties in dialogue and to help worthy participants to bring forth their best ideas. WW Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: A Word for Saturday #83867 10/20/02 12:41 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York Samstag I couldn't, either Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: A Word for Saturday #83868 10/20/02 01:17 PM Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... W Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Wordwind Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... Sighteardie to take this bit of absurdity a bit further Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: A Word for Saturday #83869 10/20/02 02:11 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Sábado or either Shatterday Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: A Word for Saturday #83870 10/20/02 02:45 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass Samstag>Sighteardie>Sonnabend>Sábado>Shatterday... sabbath, and the light dawns. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: A Word for Saturday #83871 10/20/02 03:20 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 W wwh OP Carpal Tunnel OP wwh Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 The Sabbath used to be the weekly application of soap and water. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: A Word for Saturday #83872 10/20/02 03:34 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 W wwh OP Carpal Tunnel OP wwh Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 The Saturday night application of sapo suds and abluting spray has made dispensable the thurifer, with his thurible censer. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Sab Bath #83873 10/20/02 06:34 PM Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... W Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Wordwind Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... Now just a second here...and no, I'm not gonna look it up because I have to go offline for a little while: Are you telling me that the "bath" in Sabbath has something to do with bathing? Really? If so, amazing. And, if so, I wonder why this isn't more widely known. 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