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Socratic Questioning: How to Change Your Mind
The Socratic Method is a way of thinking which helps you to become more open-minded and less afraid of being wrong. Socrates felt that we are more ignorant than not, so to achieve excellence, we can’t be satisfied with what we already know, we should keep striving to gain knowledge and get closer to the truth.
Changing your mind is more Socratic than dogmatically clinging to your beliefs throughout life. But it's not always easy to do, that is what I discuss with my guest Justin Vacula.
We cover the important point that free speech - even controversial free speech - is essential for true critical thinking and for Socratic Dialog and therefore must be protected.
Without free speech, we have what happened to Socrates himself - he was imprisoned for speaking freely and committed suicide. Human knowledge cannot be advanced without open discourse, and then we remain in ignorance.
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Changing your mind is more Socratic than dogmatically clinging to your beliefs throughout life. But it's not always easy to do, that is what I discuss with my guest Justin Vacula.
We cover the important point that free speech - even controversial free speech - is essential for true critical thinking and for Socratic Dialog and therefore must be protected.
Without free speech, we have what happened to Socrates himself - he was imprisoned for speaking freely and committed suicide. Human knowledge cannot be advanced without open discourse, and then we remain in ignorance.
Support Common Sense Ethics to see even more videos like this:
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https://www.commonsenseethics.com/blog/how-can-we-overcome-our-biases
http://www.stoicsolutionspodcast.com
http://justinvacula.com/2019/11/24/89-how-to-have-impossible-conversations-with-peter-boghossian/?fbclid=IwAR20xl6YRjJWn_UJ0WB3JD4PuoIod2j7qTdxAcG4oSfRveQ8apAbNw4eH94
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