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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 1 of 2 1 2 #182637 - 02/15/09 04:56 PM maieutic;   Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 8,945 LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel LukeJavan8   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 8,945 Land of the Flat Water bringing a person's latent ideas into clear consciousness. From the Greek, maieuesthai, of or pertaining to a midwife. Socrates compared himself to a philosophical midwife, who through his questioning could enduce the delivery of superior understanding in the other person's mind, because the knowledge was already present in that person's mind. ----please, draw me a sheep---- #184844 - 05/19/09 01:18 PM Re: maieutic; [Re: LukeJavan8]   Joined: Aug 2007 Posts: 17 Jose Gros stranger Jose Gros   stranger Joined: Aug 2007 Posts: 17 I like this word. The socratic method involved two steps: irony, or the process of fully destructing all knowledge you think you had, and maieutics, as you accurately describe, the art of midwive, or making appear the knowledge you had without knowing. It looks like psychoanalisis, but it deals with knowledge rather than with wishes #184858 - 05/20/09 09:42 AM Re: maieutic; [Re: Jose Gros]   Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 BranShea Carpal Tunnel BranShea   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 Netherlands, the Hague Those conversations are nice to read and Socrates was a shrewd clever man. But wasn't he always so right because he did the questioning more than producing answers? Wasn't he the inventor of cross- examination? Would have been a good lawyer too? #184873 - 05/21/09 07:17 AM Re: maieutic; [Re: BranShea]   Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 2,154 Zed Pooh-Bah Zed   Pooh-Bah Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 2,154 British Columbia, Canada Originally Posted By: BranShea Those conversations are nice to read and Socrates was a shrewd clever man. But wasn't he always so right because he did the questioning more than producing answers? Wasn't he the inventor of cross- examination? Would have been a good lawyer too? As excellent example then Bran. #184874 - 05/21/09 10:04 AM Re: maieutic; [Re: Zed]   Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 BranShea Carpal Tunnel BranShea   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 Netherlands, the Hague Of course you are right again. How nice it would have been to be a stander-by and listen to the conversations for real. ( no women allowed? ) #184897 - 05/22/09 05:19 PM Re: maieutic; [Re: BranShea]   Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 8,945 LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel LukeJavan8   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 8,945 Land of the Flat Water To be a "fly on the wall", has been a dream of mine in more ways than one and this surely is a good example. ----please, draw me a sheep---- #184898 - 05/22/09 05:26 PM Re: maieutic; [Re: LukeJavan8]   Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 BranShea Carpal Tunnel BranShea   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 Netherlands, the Hague More chance to stay alive and fully follow the conversation being a butterfly on the wall. #184916 - 05/23/09 11:53 PM Re: maieutic; [Re: BranShea]   Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 8,945 LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel LukeJavan8   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 8,945 Land of the Flat Water I think a butterfly would attract too much attention, but the chances of staying alive are better, agreed. And then there are the places I could not get away from, fast enough. ----please, draw me a sheep---- #185291 - 06/11/09 06:27 PM Re: maieutic; [Re: LukeJavan8]   Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 6 infiniti stranger infiniti   stranger Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 6 Guys.. I found another great vocabulary site. Check it out www.vocabularybuilding.org #185679 - 07/04/09 04:25 PM Re: maieutic; [Re: infiniti]   Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 8,945 LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel LukeJavan8   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 8,945 Land of the Flat Water Originally Posted By: infiniti Guys.. I found another great vocabulary site. Check it out www.vocabularybuilding.org Yes, good site, had it bookmarked. 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