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Saturday, April 25, 2015
TOW (& Answer)...
This week’s question was what is the maieutic method? To quote directly from the source:
(Greek, maieutikos, one who acts as a midwife) The maieutic method is that of eliciting ideas by questioning; the image is that the ideas are already there in the pregnant subject’s mind, but require midwifery to be made manifest.
The question (& answer) were taken from p. 220 of the Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy by Simon Blackburn. This edition of the book was published by Oxford University Press in 2005.