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Elementos del pensamiento crítico según Platón (ironía y mayéutica)
“Y luego, uno de los personajes principales, sino el más importante, es Sócrates en esos diálogos. Y Sócrates utiliza dos elementos de pensamiento crítico maravillosos. Uno es la ironía. La ironía es una manera preciosa de decirle a una persona, creo que te estás equivocando, y
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Socrates thought knowledge was there for the taking, and spent his life trying to take it. He was neither a sadist who took pleasure in exposing the weaknesses of others nor a freelance therapist out to rehabilitate the broken citizens of Athens. He was always clear that what drives him, Socrates, to ask people questions is quite simply the desire
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Plato’s Meno (84c):
Σωκράτης
οἴει οὖν ἂν αὐτὸν πρότερον ἐπιχειρῆσαι ζητεῖν ἢ μανθάνειν τοῦτο ὃ ᾤετο εἰδέναι οὐκ εἰδώς, πρὶν εἰς ἀπορίαν κατέπεσεν ἡγησάμενος μὴ εἰδέναι, καὶ ἐπόθησεν τὸ εἰδέναι;
Μένων
οὔ μοι δοκεῖ, ὦ Σώκρατες.
Σωκράτης
σκέψαι δὴ ἐκ ταύτης τῆς ἀπορίας ὅτι καὶ ἀνευρήσει ζητῶν μετ᾽ ἐμοῦ, οὐδὲν ἀλλ᾽ ἢ
didn’t have answers. Socrates could criticize the overconfident answers of others, but had nothing to offer in their stead. “Being like Socrates” just means being open-minded, and willing to admit when you are wrong, and unafraid to ask challenging questions.
Agnes Callard • Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life
