The Socratic method

In this post I speak as if I know how Socrates thought. I don't, of course. But I could be right, and at any rate only historians care about anachronisms, right?

In spite of his fame as the founder of Western philosophy, and the many dialogues in which he appears as a protagonist, there may be no philosopher quite as mysterious as Socrates. A bumbling paragon of curiosity in one moment, and a bombastic and venomous rhetorician the next. He’s our first moral philosopher and my personal hero. A charming enigma. Ev…