Saturday, April 25, 2015

TOW (& Answer)...

Book Jacket for: The Oxford dictionary of philosophyThis 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.