Lesson 2.2: Methods in Philosophy

Question 1

It is a method of analyzing a topic by
formulating a series of questions designed
to analyze its various aspects, and
examine and clarify a person’s views on it.

Answer 1

SOCRATIC
METHOD

Question 2

it is neither a _______ (art
of persuasion) nor a _______

Answer 2

rhetoric, debate (socratic method)

Question 3

______or intellectual
midwifery

Answer 3

maieutic, socratic

Question 4

The participant in the dialogue __ ____ force-fit
their own beliefs to others

Answer 4

DO NOT

Question 5

THREE STEPS in arriving at the TRUTH

Answer 5

1 Give an initial definition of a thing
or a concept

2Look for characteristics not
captured in the initial definition

3Give a new definition

Question 6

Socratic Method enables us to move from
state of “____ ________” to
that of “________”

Answer 6

not knowing, knowing

Question 7

can be compared to a debate competition.

Answer 7

Eristike

Question 8

is rather constructive

Answer 8

Dialektike

Question 9

If in eristike, interlocutors are _______, in dialektike they are
________.

Answer 9

adversaries, partners

Question 10

father of
modern philosophy

Answer 10

RENE DESCARTES

Question 11

sought to understand ‘certainty’.
…he eliminated the ideas in his mind that
can be doubted.

Answer 11

METHODIC DOUBT

Question 12

Rene Descartes doubted….

Answer 12

Authority
Experience
Mathematics
His existence

Question 13

Reducing complex ideas to their parts or
individual constituents

Answer 13

REDUCTIONIST

Question 14

Reductionism focuses on the

Answer 14

properties
of its parts

Question 15

Works under the assumption that all properties in a
given system cannot be broken down by its
component parts alone, but rather the system as
whole entity decides how the individual parts
behave.

Answer 15

HOLISTIC

Question 16

Something is

Answer 16

more than the
sum of its parts.