Avevo la fantasia di un libro, una raccolta e poi ridazione di questa seria di domande-con-risposte, col titolo: Socratic economics: an occasional series of questions posed in a Socratic effort to understand economics. Un primo progetto per Milo Minderbender Memorial LLP--Ho pensato che Migeru sarebbe bravo alla ridazione--pero o perche' lui abbia una idea precisa per quel progetto
June 29, 2006: Migeru:
I suggest a front-page post that can go into the debate box. The series title (for it is a series) should be "socratic economics". Socratic because we would use irony and maieutics. irony feigning ignorance in order to expose the weakness of another's position. The Greek word eironeia--ειρωνεία applied particularly to understatement in the nature of dissimulation. Such irony occurred especially and notably in the assumed ignorance which Socrates adopted as a method of dialectic, the "Socratic irony." Socratic irony involves a profession of ignorance that disguises a skeptical, non-committed attitude towards some dogma or universal opinion that lacks a basis in reason or in logic. Socrates' "innocent" inquiries expose step by step the vanity or illogicality of the proposition by unsettling the assumptions of his dialogue partner by questioning or simply not sharing his basic assumptions. The irony entertains those onlookers who know that Socrates is wiser than he permits himself to appear and who may perceive slightly in advance the direction the "naïve" questioning will take. Fowler describes it:The two parties in his audience were, first, the dogmatist, moved by pity and contempt to enlighten this ignorance, and, secondly, those who knew their Socrates and set themselves to watch the familiar game in which learning should be turned inside out by simplicity.Many have interpreted Socrates as not feigning ignorance so much as expressing a form of philosophical skepticism.maieutics a method of teaching introduced by Socrates. It is one of the four parts of socratic method. It is based on the idea that the truth is latent in the mind of every human being due to his innate reason but has to be "given birth" by questions asked by the teacher and answers given by the student. The word is derived from the Greek "maieutikos", pertaining to midwifery. Could you do me this favour? I don't like to post diaries from work anyway. The title of the first instalment should be Socratic Economics I: Why GDP growth above all else? For more evidence of this kind of thinking, just look at Jerome's diary "simply dreaming" yesterday on Martin Wolf's article.
irony feigning ignorance in order to expose the weakness of another's position. The Greek word eironeia--ειρωνεία applied particularly to understatement in the nature of dissimulation. Such irony occurred especially and notably in the assumed ignorance which Socrates adopted as a method of dialectic, the "Socratic irony." Socratic irony involves a profession of ignorance that disguises a skeptical, non-committed attitude towards some dogma or universal opinion that lacks a basis in reason or in logic. Socrates' "innocent" inquiries expose step by step the vanity or illogicality of the proposition by unsettling the assumptions of his dialogue partner by questioning or simply not sharing his basic assumptions. The irony entertains those onlookers who know that Socrates is wiser than he permits himself to appear and who may perceive slightly in advance the direction the "naïve" questioning will take. Fowler describes it:The two parties in his audience were, first, the dogmatist, moved by pity and contempt to enlighten this ignorance, and, secondly, those who knew their Socrates and set themselves to watch the familiar game in which learning should be turned inside out by simplicity.Many have interpreted Socrates as not feigning ignorance so much as expressing a form of philosophical skepticism.
The Greek word eironeia--ειρωνεία applied particularly to understatement in the nature of dissimulation. Such irony occurred especially and notably in the assumed ignorance which Socrates adopted as a method of dialectic, the "Socratic irony." Socratic irony involves a profession of ignorance that disguises a skeptical, non-committed attitude towards some dogma or universal opinion that lacks a basis in reason or in logic. Socrates' "innocent" inquiries expose step by step the vanity or illogicality of the proposition by unsettling the assumptions of his dialogue partner by questioning or simply not sharing his basic assumptions. The irony entertains those onlookers who know that Socrates is wiser than he permits himself to appear and who may perceive slightly in advance the direction the "naïve" questioning will take. Fowler describes it:
The two parties in his audience were, first, the dogmatist, moved by pity and contempt to enlighten this ignorance, and, secondly, those who knew their Socrates and set themselves to watch the familiar game in which learning should be turned inside out by simplicity.
maieutics a method of teaching introduced by Socrates. It is one of the four parts of socratic method. It is based on the idea that the truth is latent in the mind of every human being due to his innate reason but has to be "given birth" by questions asked by the teacher and answers given by the student. The word is derived from the Greek "maieutikos", pertaining to midwifery.
The word is derived from the Greek "maieutikos", pertaining to midwifery.
Could you do me this favour? I don't like to post diaries from work anyway.
The title of the first instalment should be Socratic Economics I: Why GDP growth above all else?
For more evidence of this kind of thinking, just look at Jerome's diary "simply dreaming" yesterday on Martin Wolf's article.
