Question: 1.

Explain Socratic Method in your own words? What is its relevance with critical thinking in
teaching learning process?

DEFINITION.

The strategy for request and guidance utilized by Socrates particularly as spoke to
in the discoursed of Plato and comprising of a progression of questionings the
object of which is to evoke a reasonable and reliable articulation of something
expected to be verifiably known by every single discerning being

A. Explain Socratic Method in your own words?

The Socratic strategy, otherwise called technique for Elenchus, electric

technique, or Socratic discussion, is a type of helpful factious discourse between
people, in view of posing and noting inquiries to animate basic intuition and to
draw out thoughts and basic presuppositions. It is an argumentative technique,
including an exchange where the resistance of one point of view is addressed; one
member may lead another to negate themselves here and there, in this way
debilitating the protector's point. This technique is named after the Classical Greek
scholar Socrates and is presented by him in Plato's Theaetetus as maternity care
(maieutics) in light of the fact that it is utilized to bring out definitions certain in
the questioners' convictions, or to enable them to promote their comprehension.

The Socratic technique is a strategy for theory disposal, in that better

theories are found by relentlessly distinguishing and dispensing with those that
lead to inconsistencies. The Socratic strategy looks for general, normally held
realities that shape convictions and investigates them to decide their consistency
with different convictions. The essential structure is a progression of questions
formulated as trial of rationale and truth proposed to support an individual or
gathering find their convictions about some theme, investigating definitions or
logoi (solitary logos) and trying to portray general attributes shared by different
specific examples.

What is its relevance with critical thinking in teaching learning process?

Socrates used an instructive strategy that concentrated on finding responds

to by posing inquiries from his understudies. As indicated by Plato, Socrates
accepted that "the taught routine with regards to mindful addressing empowers the
researcher/understudy to analyze thoughts and have the option to decide the
legitimacy of those thoughts". Plato, an understudy of Socrates, depicted this
thorough strategy for instructing to clarify that the educator expect a uninformed
outlook so as to propel the understudy to accept the largest amount of information.
Therefore, an understudy can recognize inconsistencies, reproduce wrong or
incomplete thoughts and basically decide essential idea.

Socratic addressing is a type of restrained scrutinizing that can be utilized

to seek after idea in numerous ways and for some, reasons, including: to
investigate complex thoughts, to get to reality of things, to open up issues and
issues, to reveal suppositions, to examine ideas, to recognize what we know from
what we don't have the foggiest idea, to pursue out intelligent results of idea or to
control exchanges. Socratic addressing depends on the establishment that
reasoning has organized rationale, and enables basic musings to be questioned.
The way to recognizing Socratic addressing from addressing essentially is that
Socratic addressing is orderly, trained, profound and typically centers around
major ideas, standards, hypotheses, issues or issues.
Socratic addressing is alluded to in instructing, and has picked up money as an
idea in training, especially in the previous two decades.[citation needed]Teachers,
understudies, or anybody keen on testing thinking at a profound level can develop
Socratic inquiries and participate in these questions. Socratic addressing and its
variations have additionally been broadly utilized in psychotherapy.

Question: 2

Write steps of Socratic Method and key questions in each step.

The Socratic Method in the Three Dialogs

Socrates was one of the organizers of western way of thinking. He is in charge

of a technique ordinarily utilized in discourse as an examination. This strategy is
known as The Socratic Method. It includes discovering truth through direct
addressing. These inquiries try to discover consistency and call attention to
inconsistency. The strategy is utilized to discover truth and question presumption
through a progression of steps. These means incorporate analyzing a case,
scrutinizing that guarantee, and discovering genuine information. Berkeley's Three
Dialogs is a genuine case of the Socratic Method.

First step.

The initial step of the Socratic strategy is to look at a definition or guarantee.

This model is shown in the Three Dialogs when Hylas calls Philonous a cynic for
not having faith in material substance. Hylas does this by expressing, " What! can
anything be increasingly fantastical, progressively offensive to sound judgment, or
an increasingly show bit of incredulity, than to accept there is nothing of the sort as
issue?" Philonous answers, "Delicately, great Hylas. Consider the possibility that it
ought to demonstrate, that you who hold there is, are by goodness of that assessment
a more prominent cynic, and keep up more conundrums and repugnancies to
presence of mind, than I who accept nothing of the sort?". Philonous takes Hylas'
case and essentially discloses to him that he in the end will understand that he in
truth isn't a doubter. He tested Hylas' case. After, Phil needed to set up precisely
what considering somebody a doubter implied. Hylas puts the definition forward," I
mean what all men mean, one that questions everything". Philonous challenges this
definition by answering, "He then who engages no uncertainty concerning some
specific point, with respect to that point can't be thought a cynic." These are instances
of the initial step in light of the fact that Philonous isn't taking any data Hylas states
as actuality. He takes the case and definition set forward by Hylas as suppositions
and incites a more profound fixation on them.

Second step.

The second step of the Socratic technique is advancing an inquiry that pursues
the past definition or guarantee. The inquiry must prompt a yes or no answer. The
inquiries are posed so as to discover defects in consistency. Philonous showed this
when he continually examined Hylas' concerning scents and how they are satisfying
and showing sensations. Philonous asked Hylas, "In the following spot, smells are
to be considered. What's more, concerning these, I would fain know, regardless of
whether what harth been said of tastes doth not actually consent to them? Are they
not all that many satisfying or disappointing sensations?" Hylas answered, "They
are". Philonous then continued to ask him yes or no inquiries and asked, "Can you
at that point imagine it conceivable that they should exist in an unperceiving thing?"
Hylas answered, no I can't. Philonous then asked," Or would you be able to envision,
that rottenness and ordure influence those beast creatures that feed on them out of
decision, mind similar scents which we see them?" Hylas answered," in no way,
shape or form". Philonous poses him one more inquiry, " may we not in this manner
close of scents, as of the other forementioned characteristics, that they can't exist in
any yet a seeing substance or psyche?" Hylas at that point answered, "I suspect as
much." This is a model on the grounds that the inquiries Philonous proposed were
yes or no inquiries that tried to discover truth inside Hylas' announcements.
Consequently these inquiries got Hylas to consider his own fact inside his cases.

Final step.

The last and last advance of the Socratic Method is for the addressed
individual to go to the acknowledgment that what he however he knew isn't correct
learning. This in reality is the most significant advance to the Socratic strategy. It is
anything but difficult to contend another keeps an eye on point, yet it is incredibly
difficult to have them totally alter their perspective on a point. Philonous prevails
with regards to utilizing the Socratic Method since he gets Hylas to understand that
what he recently thought wasn't right. A case of this is found close to the part of the
arrangement discourse when Hylas states, " A little persistence, Philonous. I am at
present so astounded to see myself caught, and in a manner of speaking detained in
the mazes you have drawn me into, that on the abrupt it can't be normal I should
discover out. You should give personal time to look about me, and remember
myself" Philonous had the option to address Hylas and enabled him to account for
himself, in such a way, that he had the option to see the irregularity and absence of
truth inside his very own cases. Hence driving him to deny what he had thought to
be valid.