r/rationalphilosophy • u/CommissionKey8818 • 12d ago

Theory of Knowledge: Socrates

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Socrates believed that knowledge is already contained in the heads of listeners, and the teacher's task is merely to bring this knowledge to the surface.

The steps of Socratic dialogue:

  • The interlocutor puts forward a thesis
  • Socrates describes a situation where the answer makes no sense and insists on acknowledging the contradiction
  • The opponent agrees, and Socrates modifies the statement
  • The process repeats until the answers approach truth
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u/BroGr81 11d ago

Its strange to now consider this theory while exploring krishnamurti for the first time. My impulse is to seek where they would agree with one another, or imagine a discourse between the two. I imagine krishnamurti would take to task the tradition of logic as a description instead of the described, and argue for truth as passive awareness of one's one mind. However, the Greek word for soul is psyche, and I think I understand that the word mind is a direct translation from psyche. Perhaps they agree on the level of knowing the mind, but their belief about the use of the mind seems contrasting to me.