Sokratische Praxis: Das Urteilen befragen

In the organizer's words:

"Tuesdays in the Foyer" special:

An evening on the application of the Socratic method

The focus of the evening is the Socratic method, the Socratic discussion - the joint examination, differentiation and clarification as carried out by Socrates and developed as a philosophical method by Leonard Nelson.

During the evening, this will not only take place in general terms, but also on the basis of concrete observations: using examples from the philosophical practice of philosophical practitioners themselves (Gerd B. Achenbach), which may seem simple at first - but which raise questions: what is good, what is right, what is appropriate in the situation.
What do we mean when we make a judgment in such a case? What are we relying on? And does what we say stand up to closer scrutiny? The joint discussion does not follow a predetermined solution. It develops step by step, probing, questioning, examining.

The difficulties then become clearer: the tendency to make hasty judgments; the avoidance of unclear premises; the need to come to a conclusion before the question has been sufficiently clarified.

The evening thus focuses on the act of thinking itself. On what happens when we try to really hold on to a thought and examine it. In this sense, the evening sees itself as a thinking space: a place where concrete individual cases become an opportunity to examine our own judgments - and to clarify in a joint discussion what can be said and what perhaps must remain open.

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