The Socratic Method (Episode 47)
Stoa Conversations: Stoicism Applied
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The Importance of Definitions
Socrates uses a series of questions to try and work out what it means to help or harm someone. He doesn't actually add any arguments himself, he's just drawing out the implications of that first position. Socrates is so fascinating as we're all walking around with these intuitions without really thinking about them. It's not just definitional wordplay, it's like we're trying to figure out what it mean to help somebody.
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