Socrates: An Analysis Of Plato's Five Dialogues

1) Socratic method- also known as Socratic Debate, is a method named after the Greek philosopher Socrates. It is a way and form of making inquiry and getting information. This is done by asking questions and answering questions. The objective of this is to think critically and to make the idea more detailed, clear and crisp. In plato's Five Dialogues he gives an example of Socrates using the socratic method when speaking to Euthyphro. When Socrates was in search to understand what piety is, he went to Euthyphro who was a knowledgeable priest. Socrates asked him if something is pious because the gods love it or if the god's love things because they are pious. Using this method of circular reasoning proved that Euthyphro did not understand what

The phenomena and the noumena are two facets of the real. The aspect which appears to us when we perceive it, and the aspect that is actually really real. For example physicists can say that even though a table appears to be solid, in fact it is made up of molecules and atoms, which are made almost entirely of empty space. So the way a thing appears to our senses may not be, at least according to physics, the same as the way the thing really actually is. Hume believed that everything we experience is really only a perception, and that what we think of as our self or identity is not really real at all. Kant believed that the phenomena world is the world we are aware of, because the phenomenal is what shows, it is what appears to us. The noumena world consists of things we seem compelled to believe in, but which we can never know because we lack sense-evidence of it.

4) a priori/ a posteriori- A priori and a posteriori are two ways of knowing. A priori knowledge is defined as knowledge that we can have prior to experience. For Example, "All rectangles have four sides." A posteriori knowledge is knowledge that we can have only after we have certain experiences. For example "Smoking causes cancer." Kant believed if we are to have knowledge of the noumena, it would have to come from some form of a priori