If a child who thinks and understands as a child can ask why, then "why" is Socratic Method a method, shouldn'

Question

If a child who thinks and understands as a child can ask why, then "why" is Socratic Method a method, shouldn't it be called Childlike reasoning?

Answer 1

Why would you think that? And if it is true, what would that mean?

Answer 2

The actual Socratic method is not intellectual questioning at all, it's a meditative method for experiencing Plato's Forms, culminating in the experience of Pure Consciousness, which Plato called "the Good". All of Socrates' questions were simply meant to strip away misconceptions and wrond ways of thinking, to "purify" the mind so that one could be open to and properly understand the experience of the Forms. The "Dialectic", which people mistakenly associat with Socrates' mode of questioning, is a transcendental faculty. The highest form of reasoning, according to Plato, is "Dianoia", used in mathematical thought, and still only provides a "shadow" of the truth seen in the Forms.

Answer 3

Socratic method is more than simply asking 'why'. It's asking the right kinds of 'why'. But anyway, it's mostly overrated. It tends to just piss people off - hell, it got Socrates killed.

Answer 4

a child has the courage to ask and lo the adults do not have the answers and so they try to put their foot down.same thing happened with socrates