Socratic dialogues, I should say, of Plato.
his Socratic philosophy of course not only to his work in industry but most rewardingly to his work in the classroom
old-fashioned Socratic humility is just not a good fit for the smartphone era, Tom.
It is the Socratic method.
Make them have Socratic dialogue.
They're having Socratic dialogue.
You see it in Socratic dialogue.
It was almost a Socratic dialogue.
So you really engaged in a Socratic dialogue with him.
I could have engaged in a Socratic approach.
ethics class is also built on the Socratic method and true to Google tradition we will have time at the end of our talk for some brief questions and
So it starts with the Pre-Socratics , the earliest Greek philosophers, and it goes until I get hit by a bus or meet some other--
naturally his guests are dubious the time traveler proceeds socratically he B batters them with logic you know of
Always approach it from a Socratic position.
It could be a Socratic heaven.
And it takes the form, in large part, of Socratic dialogues with Bruce Wayne, who's a military contractor who provides predictive policing software to the NYPD,
And I think one way to train for that is through real breadth of exposure, Socratic methodology, debating in class, debating at night.
so there's opportunity for reflection, and we also are very Socratic and try to involve as many people as we possibly can.
So there's a kind of reductionist story, there's a kind of Socratic dialogue that takes place in the Singularity literature, in which you have someone who's a skeptic and
The Harkness table, the famed idea of sitting around and having a Socratic discussion.
to the Hebrew prophets, the teachings of the Pre-Socratic philosophers and the Sermon on the Mount of Jesus of Nazareth.
Differentiated instruction, active learning, don't be sage on the stage, have a Socratic discussion, do a simulation, have So
In some ways, it might be a very romanticized account of what a Socratic dialogue looks like.
And so for me, there's three sources for this one is the Socratic legacy of Athens,
And I won't, but I'll just mention as a footnote, it's interesting to think about, to compare this to a platonic or Socratic dialogue.
So I started wearing Amish clothes and a bonnet and going around to tech conferences and startup places and basically just asking people very Socratic and existential
And in the book, we lay out some very specific and promising examples of where this kind of Socratic engagement is happening where those extreme voices are
Because this is Socratic method.
like sitting on a beach someplace but to see how the indigenous population works and above all to say this is a dialogue, it's a conversation, it's a Socratic
And luckily, he uh bumps into his old physics professor who gives him these like Socratic lessons.
And this, I think, relates a lot to the like sort of Socratic enlightenment type of thinking as well.
There are plenty of instances in the Bible, that are in exactly the same genre as the Socratic dialogues which are the bedrock of how we have taught philosophy for 2,400 years.