(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.
Saturday, April 25, 2015
TOW (& Answer)...
This week’s question was what is the maieutic method? To quote directly from the source: