Posted by John Lambert on December 01, 2006 at 18:44:40 from 24.80.117.76 user John.
In Reply to: Re: Captain Flint's travels - overcooked? posted by Jock on December 01, 2006 at 11:43:34:
I don't dispute that Hegel wasn't the first to attempt to achieve a synthesis of views to establish "the truth", but I think his technique differs from the Socratic method. I have often thought of Socrates as an irritating old man wandering around making fools of everyone when they couldn't substantiate what answers they gave to his questions. Not much dialectic here, I fear. The upshot seems to have been that Socrates managed to prove that his fellow Athenians didn't know what they were talking about. No wonder he was put to death.