The basis of his teaching was the belief in an objective understandign of concepts such as justice, love or virtue. ... In the Socratic dialogues, he would question the students and carefully apply his dialectical method. This method employed a critical inquiry to undermine the plausibility of widely-held doctrines. ... He tried to pass on the heritage of a Socratic style of thinking and to guide the progress of the students through mathematical learning to the achievement of abstract philosophical truth. In his earliest literary efforts, Plato tried to convey the spirit of Socrates's te...

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The basis of his teaching was the belief in an objective understandign of concepts such as justice, love or virtue. ... In the Socratic dialogues, he would question the students and carefully apply his dialectical method. This method employed a critical inquiry to undermine the plausibility of widely-held doctrines. ... He tried to pass on the heritage of a Socratic style of thinking and to guide the progress of the students through mathematical learning to the achievement of abstract philosophical truth. In his earliest literary efforts, Plato tried to convey the spirit of Socrates's te...

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Yet Aristotle, who was born fifteen years after the death of Socrates, had no firsthand account of the teachings of Socrates, and learned of this philosopher mainly through Plato. ... Plato considered philosophy to be a systematic, rigorous method of of constantly questioning and examining everything in one's surroundings. ... Those remaining would learn geometry and mathematics. ... His main method of teaching was the socratic method. This is a method where the teacher asks students questions to get to an answer. ...

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