Socratic Method

I find this interesting as I'm standing building furniture out of wood listening. Good lecture

I had never seen so many different chairs before!

love this video… I was completely obsessed with Socrates as a seven, and I just completed a composition numbers of months ago, called Socrates, that is an experimental composition, exposing our society in Western civilization for what it actually is. Even the eastern civilizations all of the manatee needs to look in the mirror.

The eternal quest to define truth

Ah, your copy of McKeon's "The Basic Works of Aristotle" on the shelf behind you brought a smile to my face. It's quite an old friend, eh?

So great! I’ve ever come across a Socratic dialogue video that compares. Very thorough demonstration—this gives us the gift of uncertainty and encourages a certain sort of expansive thinking.

I created a video on the S Method about ten years ago, but I love that your lecture clearly shows the limitations of the S Method. We know but cannot always outline the necessary and sufficient conditions. thank you for all your videos.

Amazing explanation sir!
Sir, which is the best book to read to learn "Socrates Dialogue questions"?

Simplest way I can define time. Change.

Who What Where When Which Why How = Socratic method...oslt.

The beanbag chair puzzled me but raises a great point

looking at it this way, if your definition of a chair doesn't include the beanbag chair, then by our standards the definition is wrong. But before the beanbag chair was sold and marketed, the definition is okay, because nobody prior to it would say "That's incomplete, what about a bag full of beans?" - nobody except the guy inventing them at least ;)

So is the chair definition wrong for not including a motorized refrigerator? What if I plan on selling that as a chair and it finds a cult following? Then it is! but maybe only for people who know about it and have been exposed to it. So what happened, did I change the global definition of a chair or did I carelessly misuse the term chair and corrupt people's views? 🤔

Maybe a bit useless in the chair example but I can see how you really drill down and can figure out subtle differences in the basics we accept. A chair for me is a stool for you, regardless of the form, or the function, or the intent. Now shift that away from chairs to more important things ... I can see why people found Socrates annoying 😆

Is language our limitation? I trust I know what a chair is bt cant accurately communicate what it is.a chair can have many functions.there is a feeling I get from what I call a chair.there are things I associate a chair with ad there are several assumptions I make to determine what a chair is or is not.also often times this can be determined by culture ad environment.or e lse a chair is a chair is a chair just like sitting may not be sleeping.again wont this depend on my physiology?

What about what is sitting?must a chair be sat on ad must the sister be human?

Thanku sir

I find it very difficult to reconcile your clear-thinking philosophy videos with the fact that you support/supported Trump.

The chair is only defined in so much as we can mutually agree on its definition. IE A football in America is a different shape than a football in Europe. What I want to know is if the chair is one part stardust derivatives, and mostly empty space, does the chair even exist? If we were not here to observe the chair, would the chair exist in physical reality, or does it only exist as a thought form? If all matter derives from such stardust, yet is mostly empty space, can we say that all matter is the same and thus cannot be defined other than through the mutual meanings and definitions we agree upon?

Chair is a structure, which my mind reconginses as a chair

Thanks

Thank you prof.

the high chair thing blew muh mind

I can watch/listen to your videos all day.

Instead of defining what is a chair by it's characteristics. Maybe we should go with strictly its function. The one defining feature of a chair seems to be a place for on person to sit. That would seem to solve the beanbag chair and others that aren't really considered the classic chair. Perhaps a bar stool is a nickname for a chair. I'm not sure if these might lean back into being to general but it just seems to me that trying to define something purely on my it's physical form seems to lead us, at least in this case, down a sort of messy rhetorical road. Just my thoughts. What do you think?

I think of a stool as a type of chair :3

Thank you so much for spreading your knowledge.

This one is very helpful in clarifying what is and what is not the Socratic method.

For the love of god quote the videos you are inserting

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In the course of liberal arts and legal studies, disproportionate importance is given to the technical area of the law, and less to subjects like history, philosophy, political science, etc., which I feel are equally essential to a truly liberal education. Your videos and lectures have provided profound and wide-ranging knowledge that has helped me immensely.

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I recently found your channel and have found it super useful. Thank you for putting on content, I love learning philosophy and it is very useful in debate. One question I have regarding Kant that I was wondering if you could answer:

How does Kant deal with conflicting perfect duties? He only ever writes like one paragraph about conflicting duties, and it is super short and blippy. He claims it’s never possible for the duties to conflict, but I’m very confused about how that could be the case considering situations such as civil obedience conflicting with promise breaking, such as needing to speed or you will be late for work.