Socratism

Socratism is the philosophy or the method of Socrates to whom are generally ascribed an intense ethical devotion that influenced all later Greek philosophy, the development of the inductive method, and the conception of knowledge or insight as the foundation of virtue.

Socrates exerted a strong influence on philosophers in later antiquity and has continued to do so in the modern era. He was studied by medieval and Islamic scholars and played an important role in the thought of the Italian Renaissance, particularly within the. Interest in him continued unabated, as reflected in the works of Kierkegaardianism and  Friedrich Nietzsche.

Dialectical Method
Socrates’ dialectical method was a simple method of questioning that brought to light the often false assumptions on which particular claims to knowledge are based. The Socratic method is a method of hypothesis elimination, in that better hypotheses are found by steadily identifying and eliminating those that lead to contradictions.

[[File:Irony.png]] Socratic Irony
Socratic irony is "the dissimulation of ignorance practised by Socrates as a means of confuting an adversary". Socrates would pretend to be ignorant of the topic under discussion, to draw out the inherent nonsense in the arguments of his interlocutors.

Cosmopolitan Ethics
The most important indication of Socrates’s  is his rejection of ordinary politics, trading in local commitments for cosmopolitan ones. As Plato characterizes him, Socrates avoids traditional political engagement as much as he can, in favor of an extraordinary career of examining himself and others, and he insists that these examinations are both genuinely political and extended to all, Athenians and foreigners alike.

Friends

 * [[File:Plato.png]] Platoism - My child, though overrated a bit.

Enemies

 * [[file:Athdem.png]] - What if the people are retarded?

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