In both 1872 and 1873 James was offered teaching positions at Harvard University. Rather than starting right away, James postponed teaching to travel around Europe. Finally, in 1875 James began teaching psychology and also established the first American psychology lab. ... In 1880 James became the assistant professor of philosophy at Harvard University and continued teaching psychology as well. ... Pragmatism is a philosophy that attempts to apply the methods of science to philosophy (Singer, 2002). ...

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The teaching implies that all human beings and the Buddha have equal abilities. ... He wants people to test the authenticity of the teachings and prove them for themselves. ... His teachings come from his personal life experience. ... Instead of depending on hearsay and religious rhetoric, the Buddha uses an ideal scientific method to show human beings reality in its natural form ("Buddhism in a Nutshell "). ... It is one thing to follow Buddha's teachings and to worship God. ...

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Socrates had a very unique, perhaps somewhat annoying (to some) way of teaching and learning. ... This question and answer method is known as Socratic Dialectic, which is also known as the Socratic Method. ... It is easy to think of people who sometimes use a modern version of the Socratic Method. ... The method could go on forever. ... Socratic Method is to show us that even though we thought that we knew something, we really didn't. ...

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The basis of his teaching was the belief in an objective understandign of concepts such as justice, love or virtue. ... Socrates believed that he had received a call to pursue philosophy and that he could serve his country best by devoting himself to teaching, and by persuading the Athenians to engage in self-examination and in tending to their souls. ... 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. ... In his earliest literary efforts, Plato...

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The basis of his teaching was the belief in an objective understandign of concepts such as justice, love or virtue. ... Socrates believed that he had received a call to pursue philosophy and that he could serve his country best by devoting himself to teaching, and by persuading the Athenians to engage in self-examination and in tending to their souls. ... 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. ... In his earliest literary efforts, Plato...

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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. ... As he grew and learned from the world around him and from Socrates, Plato developed his own unique style of philosophy, based around the Socratic method. Plato considered philosophy to be a systematic, rigorous method of of constantly questioning and examining everything in one's surroundings. ... His main method of teaching was the socratic method. This is a method where the teacher asks students question...

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* * * Augustine and Plato held several different views regarding the role of philosophy, especially in regards to the use and method of questioning. Plato's approach to philosophical questioning was through the Socratic method. The Socratic method is a teaching style where the teacher does not directly give information, but instead asks a series of questions which lead the student to uncover the desired knowledge by completing the series of logical questions. The Socratic method is the basis for many of the philosophical conclusions reached in Plato's Phaedo. ... The search for t...

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The good part is that Socrates never charges his student for listening to his teaching. All Socrates is interested in is teaching his student about his belief in reasoning about wisdom. ... On the other hand, Socrates taught about the new law before he was dead, but the students and friends were arguing with him and trying to persuade him to give up his teachings so that he will have a chance to survive. However, Socrates is not going to change his teaching method because he strongly believed in the Athenian society law is always right. ... For example, no one would blame him for teaching the ...

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In 332 BCE Aristotle founded Lyceum, a School in Athens, which was known as the peripatetic school because instructors would walk around the neighborhood while teaching. ... He did so through syllogism, which was a method to prove relationships and therefore prove as reliable knowledge. ... This was a solid method to create demonstrative knowledge. ...

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Aristotle returned to Athens after many years of teaching Alexander in 335 BC and established his own school, the Lyceum. ... This method of study is called inductive reasoning: observing as many examples as possible and then, based on these observations, working out a basic principle they have in common. Inductive reasoning is the basis of the western scientific method. ...

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The use of the experimental method in order to determine things was changing the way one had looked at the world. ... In spite of his own rhetoric about scientific method, he in fact gathered little data on this matter, instead remaining in the realm of the ideal. ... But many of Augustine's positions went against the teachings of Jesus; Augustine rejected pacifism, which to some seemed to be implied by Jesus words about not resisting evil and turning the other cheek. ...

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