Socrates, Spirituality and the 21st Century Knowledge-Building by Cameron Richards
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- Socrates, Spirituality and the 21st Century Knowledge-Building by Cameron Richards
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- Published on June 1, 2013
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Often regarded as the father of Western thinking and a key reference point for the emergence of modern society, Socrates is a pivotal figure in human history, especially in terms of the gap or transition between traditional and modern knowledge systems. This study proposes to explore the ongoing, future, and also ‘spiritual’ relevance of both the general example of Socrates the educator and the methods he developed which have been a key source of Western ethics, logic, and rhetoric. Indeed, in terms of its influence on his student Plato and his own student Aristotle, Socrates’ elenchus method has been regarded as the key prototype and seminal influence on the emergence of a general model of thinking and knowledge construction typically referred to as the ‘scientific method’ (Vlastos, 1992; Sott, 2002). Likewise, the sense of irony as well as other rhetorical techniques with which Socrates both verbally and strategically or philosophically applied his general method of inducing learning, thinking, and knowledge in others was a focus for the great 19th century philosopher, Kierkegaard to recognize him as the first modern thinker – both generally and also specifically in the context of his own influential efforts to redefine spirituality in the modern age. Heidegger’s reference in the early 20th century to Socrates’ as the purest thinker in the West was developed by Hannah Arendt (1989: 20) into an insight that Socrates’ was the great discoverer of a truly universal perspective on the human condition – the ‘vita activa’ of human thought linked to action.
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Explorations in Human Spirituality Edited by: Akbar Husain