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OP 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
Sonnabendsorry, couldn't resist
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
Samstag I couldn't, either
Sighteardie to take this bit of absurdity a bit further
Sábado
or either
Shatterday
Samstag>Sighteardie>Sonnabend>Sábado>Shatterday...
sabbath, and the light dawns.
OP The Sabbath used to be the weekly application of soap and water.
OP The Saturday night application of sapo suds and abluting spray has made dispensable
the thurifer, with his thurible censer.
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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