The Socratic Tradition: Questioning as Philosophy and as Method

Man by nature desires to know, and the most natural way of satisfying this desire is to find answers to the questions that arise from wonder and perplexity. Questioning is our default view of method. I was turned into a cornerstone of western thought in the Socratic elenchus and Aristotle´s doctrine of explanation and inquiry. Aristotle´s dialogical games, especially as they find expression in Topics, survived medieval dialectical games and had a profound impact on practices in academic lif...