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Page 1 of 2 1 2 > Topic Options #182637 - 02/15/09 11:56 AM maieutic; LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/08 Posts: 8429 Loc: 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---- Top #184844 - 05/19/09 09:18 AM Re: maieutic; [Re: LukeJavan8] Jose Gros stranger Registered: 08/25/07 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 Top #184858 - 05/20/09 05:42 AM Re: maieutic; [Re: Jose Gros] BranShea Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/06 Posts: 5295 Loc: 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? Top #184873 - 05/21/09 03:17 AM Re: maieutic; [Re: BranShea] Zed Pooh-Bah Registered: 08/27/02 Posts: 2154 Loc: 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. Top #184874 - 05/21/09 06:04 AM Re: maieutic; [Re: Zed] BranShea Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/06 Posts: 5295 Loc: 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? ) Top #184897 - 05/22/09 01:19 PM Re: maieutic; [Re: BranShea] LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/08 Posts: 8429 Loc: 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---- Top #184898 - 05/22/09 01:26 PM Re: maieutic; [Re: LukeJavan8] BranShea Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/06 Posts: 5295 Loc: Netherlands, the Hague More chance to stay alive and fully follow the conversation being a butterfly on the wall. Top #184916 - 05/23/09 07:53 PM Re: maieutic; [Re: BranShea] LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/08 Posts: 8429 Loc: 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---- Top #185291 - 06/11/09 02:27 PM Re: maieutic; [Re: LukeJavan8] infiniti stranger Registered: 06/11/09 Posts: 6 Guys.. I found another great vocabulary site. Check it out www.vocabularybuilding.org Top #185679 - 07/04/09 12:25 PM Re: maieutic; [Re: infiniti] LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/08 Posts: 8429 Loc: 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. Have dyslexia, and have the tendency to confuse one word for another, so need all the sites I can get. thanks for the reminder. _________________________ ----please, draw me a sheep---- Top Page 1 of 2 1 2 > Previous Topic Index Next Topic Preview Hop to: General Topics ------   Information and announcements   Q&A about words   Wordplay and fun   Words and languages in schools   Miscellany   Weekly Themes   Looking for (writers, speakers, ...) (Old) Weekly themes. 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