According to The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, the Socratic method of teaching is "the method of teaching in which the master imparts no information, but asks a sequence of questions, through answering which the pupil eventually comes to the desired knowledge. ... The meaning of the method Plato uses through Socrates to convey his message to his audience has been debated by philosophers for years and while most of them agree on the use of irony in the Apology they don't agree on the extent or the type of irony. ... "Conditional irony is an important part of Socrates' met...

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There is nothing sinful or injurious in the methods per se. ... The whole approach focuses upon a confidence that what is wrong with a man is not his essential nature, but only the distorted impediments that hamper his vision - a basic theosophical teaching. ... The missing element in psychiatry, clearly, is not in the basic method nor in the attitude of the best practitioners in the field, but solely in a lack of sufficient knowledge regarding the "higher self." ... Our knowledge comes from those teachings. ...

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Plato's response was to continue to teach the methods of Socrates in order to clear his mentor's name as a corruptor and in order to defy authority- in a sense to be true to himself. ... Plato's teaching method was the exploration of the question itself, and coming to a satisfactory answer was not the intent of the discussion. ...

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