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Happiness Lessons of The Ancients: Socrates and Self-Knowledge

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

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The Socratic Method in Arithmetic

The Socratic method is eliciting from somebody a fact about the world or a view about the world, which they didn't realize they held. So what Socrates does is he uses the method that you might use in arithmetic or geometry about the sorts of things that matter most. And we can think of our own examples of teaching children basic facts of arithmetic. You cause them to come to reason.

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