Socratic
nounEtymology Borrowed from Latin Sōcratic(us). By surface analysis, Socrat(es) + -ic.
1
A proponent of the philosophy or methods of Socrates.
Socratic
adjUK /səˈkɹatɪk/ · US /səˈkɹætɪk/
Etymology Borrowed from Latin Sōcratic(us). By surface analysis, Socrat(es) + -ic.
1
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the philosopher Socrates or his philosophy or methods.
- His closest companions were handsome young boys who worshipped him and his game, whom Bill sought to remake in his own image. He had no family, no real heirs, and so his boys were his spiritual sons as well as his heirs in tennis. They were his lovers as well. Theirs was a relationship of a Socratic sort, a pedagogical eroticism between an adolescent protege which ingaged them in a mutual project of spiritual and physical development.1976 December 11, Thom Willenbecher, “Tilden Re-Crucified”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 24, page 14:
2
Specifically Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Socratic irony or the Socratic method.
- a Socratic question
- Derived terms
- antisocratic, Presocratic, pre-Socratic, Socratically, Socratic irony, Socraticism, Socratic method