Sócrates (470 a.- C.-399 a. C), source of image of mastery of Wikimedia Commons
The mayéutica midwifery, name that was doing allusion to the midwife's office, which his mother was exercising, consists of formulating a series of questions, that other was going so far as to discover the truth for yes same.
The Socratic method was advancing to if it was doing by means of inductive reasoning, was aspiring to describe the essence of the things from the entire ignorance, to come to a general conclusion, which could satisfy all, the definition this thing pair Sócrates, knowing and the virtue they coincide, according to this attitude, that it was called intelectualismo ethically, it is not good what the people say, that it is good, but what one himself reasons that it is good. The nastiness is only an ignorance, the reason does that the man is liberated of the passions it is the knowledge of one himself, know each other you himself.
Sócrates, who was aspiring to one to know I practise of way moral utilitarianism, it is good what is useful in every experienced case of experience, aguijonaba to his fellow citizens with simple but deep questions, especially to the young people Athenian, that were coming to his classes, it was raising questions: What is the justice?: What is the value?, until there was gained the blood feud of the notable ones of Athens. Accused of not honoring the gods of be careful and to corrupt to the youth, it was convicted to drink the hemlock (it was the form in which the capital punishment was applied in Greece), to think that his friends facilitated to him the flight, Sócrates accepted the condemnation to death, because he was thinking, that the laws are done to be fulfilled, steps his last hours of life discussing with his accompanists the immortality of the soul.
Bibliography
Sócrates and the art of the escape for Malena Lasala - 1996.
Sócrates: Knowing ethical How for Norbert Bilbeny - 1998.
