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OverviewA thinking person's guide to a better life. Ward Farnsworth explains what the Socratic method is, how it works, and why it matters more than ever in our time. Easy to grasp yet challenging to master, the method will change the way you think about life's big questions. About 2,500 years ago, Plato wrote a set of dialogues that depict Socrates in conversation. The way Socrates asks questions, and the reasons why, amount to a whole way of thinking. This is the Socratic method--one of humanity's great achievements. More than a technique, the method is an ethic of patience, inquiry, humility, and doubt. It is an aid to better thinking, and a remedy for bad habits of mind, whether in law, politics, the classroom, or tackling life's big questions at the kitchen table. Drawing on hundreds of quotations, this book explains what the Socratic method is and how to use it. Chapters include Question and Answer, Ignorance, and Socrates and the Stoics. Socratic philosophy is still startling after all these years because it is an approach to asking hard questions and chasing after them. It is a route to wisdom and a way of thinking about wisdom. With Farnsworth as your guide, the ideas of Socrates are easier to understand than ever and accessible to anyone. As Farnsworth achieved with The Practicing Stoic and the Farnsworth's Classical English series, ideas of old are made new and vital again. This book is for those coming to philosophy the way Socrates did--as the everyday activity of making sense out of life and how to live it--and for anyone who wants to know what he said about doing that better. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ward Farnsworth , John LescaultPublisher: Blackstone Publishing Imprint: Blackstone Publishing ISBN: 9798200697052Publication Date: 04 January 2022 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Audio Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsA great success. There is nothing like it. An excellent resource both for students and for general readers. -- A. A. Long, author of Epictetus A wonderful book. It is elegant, erudite, but wears its pedagogical virtues so lightly as to never come off as pedantic. -- Rebecca Goldstein, author of Plato at the Googleplex "A great success. There is nothing like it. An excellent resource both for students and for general readers. -- ""A. A. Long, author of Epictetus"" A wonderful book. It is elegant, erudite, but wears its pedagogical virtues so lightly as to never come off as pedantic. -- ""Rebecca Goldstein, author of Plato at the Googleplex""" Author InformationWard Farnsworth is dean and John Jeffers Research Chair at the University of Texas School of Law. He received his JD with high honors from the University of Chicago Law School, and his BA from Wesleyan University. He is the author of books on law, philosophy, rhetoric, and chess and has published scholarly articles on the economic analysis of law, constitutional law, statutory interpretation, jurisprudence, and cognitive psychology. Patrick Cullen (a.k.a. John Lescault), a native of Massachusetts, is a graduate of the Catholic University of America. He lives in Washington, DC, where he works in theater. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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