How to Craft a Valid Socratic Question

Defining the strategies Socrates used in his dialogues and seeing how to effectively apply them in everyday life.

It has once again become fashionable in popular culture for scoundrels to liken themselves to Socrates when they “win” a debate. More than being an arrogant thing to assert in any context, the comparison is wholly inaccurate for a number of reasons. Chief among these contrasts is that none of the original surviving dialogues of Plato are debates: a deba…