- A Manual for Creating Atheists
…ing technique in the middle chapters is genuinely good and is more or less what Socrates does in the : ask how someone knows, and keep asking. But works precisely becau…
- Apology
Related (c. 399 BCE) Overview Plato's account of the speech Socrates gave in his own defence at his trial in Athens in 399 BCE, on charges of impiet…
- How to Have Impossible Conversations
…e first half for the habits; skip the ladder. The habits are in the anyway, and Socrates had the decency not to call them a skill tree. Also see
- Republic
Related (c. 375 BCE) Overview A dialogue, with Socrates as the main speaker, that begins by asking what justice is and ends by designin…
- Steelmanning
…procedure, which is useful until the procedure becomes a technique for winning. Socrates in the does something close to it: he states the charge against him more clearl…
