Conflicted: How Productive Disagreements Lead to Better Outcomes
by Ian Leslie · 23 Feb 2021 · 280pp · 82,393 words
other, or an audience. But it was also believed that by examining a problem from different angles, new truths could emerge. The practice was essentially Socratic dialogue, formalised and scaled up. Historians of the period talk of the ‘institutionalisation of conflict’. Institutions have a habit of stagnating. In the sixteenth century, Renaissance
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works, according to James Evans’s study. It’s how Warren Buffett designs the decision-making process for investment. It’s the principle that underlies Socratic dialogue. Looked at through the interactionist lens, confirmation bias isn’t something to eliminate; it’s something to harness. Under the right conditions, it raises the
The Story of Philosophy
by Will Durant · 23 Jul 2012 · 685pp · 203,431 words
. (Oxford.) 2 volumes. $2.85. Plato: Republic. Translated by H. Spens. Everyman’s Library. (Dutton.) $.80. Plato: Dialogues. Everyman’s Library. (Dutton.) $.80. Plato: Four Socratic Dialogues. Translated by Jowett. (Oxford.) $1.70. Aristotle: Ethics. Translated by D. P. Chase. Everyman’s Library. (Dutton.) $.80. Aristotle: Ethics. Translated by Bishop Welldon. (Macmillan
A Manual for Creating Atheists
by Peter Boghossian · 1 Nov 2013 · 257pp · 77,030 words
sense to you?” 10th Grader: “Not really” —Peter Boghossian, “The Socratic Method (or, Having a Right to Get Stoned)” “Often as a consequence of sustained Socratic dialogue, one realizes that one did not know something that one thought one knew.” —Peter Boghossian, “Socratic Pedagogy” The purpose of this chapter is to demonstrate
The Consolations of Philosophy
by Alain de Botton · 1 Jan 2000 · 225pp · 61,814 words
mention of Aristophanes and quotations from Plato’s Phaedo, the portrait of Socrates is drawn from Plato’s early and middle dialogues (the so-called Socratic dialogues): Apology, Charmides, Crito, Euthydemus, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Laches, Lysis, Menexenus, Meno, Protagoras and Republic, book I Quotations taken from: The Last
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Days of Socrates, Plato, translated by Hugh Tredennick, Penguin, 1987 Early Socratic Dialogues, Plato, translated by Iain Lane, Penguin, 1987 Protagoras and Meno, Plato, translated by W. K. C. Guthrie, Penguin, 1987 Gorgias, Plato, translated by Robin Waterfield
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reprinted from Parerga and Paralipomena, Arthur Schopenhauer, (volumes I and II, trans. E. F. Payne, 1974) by permission of Oxford University Press; Penguin Books: Early Socratic Dialogues, Plato, trans. Iain Lane, 1987; The Last Days of Socrates, Plato, trans. Hugh Tredennick, 1987; Protagoras and Meno, Plato, trans. W. K. C. Guthrie, 1987
The end of history and the last man
by Francis Fukuyama · 28 Feb 2006 · 446pp · 578 words
works will reveal that historical accident and contingency play a large role in them.19 The Hegelian dialectic is similar to its Platonic predecessor, the Socratic dialogue, that is, a conversation between two human beings on some important subject like the nature of the good or the meaning of justice. Such discussions
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by Clive Thompson · 11 Sep 2013 · 397pp · 110,130 words
, who asked you?” Question answering provides a built-in, instant audience of at least one—the original asker. This is another legacy of Plato’s Socratic dialogues, in which Socrates asks questions of his debating partners (often faux-naive, concern-trolling ones, of course) and they pose questions of him in turn
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement - 30th Anniversary Edition
by Eliyahu M. Goldratt · 1 Jun 2012 · 429pp · 137,940 words
built out of chaos. What can be more beautiful than that?’’ With glittering eyes she asks, "Do you know what you have just described? The Socratic dialogues. They’re done in exactly the same way, through exactly the same relationship, IF . . . THEN. Maybe the only difference is that the facts do not
The Dice Man
by Luke Rhinehart · 1 Jan 1971 · 524pp · 143,596 words
whereby Eric was to be released three days later. He was naturally keyed up about leaving and didn't listen carefully as I began a Socratic dialogue to get him into dice therapy. Unfortunately, the Socratic method entails a second person at least willing to grunt periodically and since Eric remained absolutely
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
by James Gleick · 1 Mar 2011 · 855pp · 178,507 words
life,” born of the natural impulse toward imitation that begins in childhood. But he had also to account for other writing with other purposes—the Socratic dialogues, for example, and medical or scientific treatises—and this general type of work, including, presumably, his own, “happens, up to the present day, to have
Future Tense: Jews, Judaism, and Israel in the Twenty-First Century
by Jonathan Sacks · 19 Apr 2010 · 305pp · 97,214 words
surfeit of dialogues: between faiths, between religion and science, between cultures and between civilisations. Dialogues are rarely genuine encounters. Franz Rosenzweig once pointed out that Socrates’ dialogues—the greatest of their kind in philosophy—are boring, because you know in advance where they will end.2 Socrates will show that the person
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