Question

What did Socrates hope to achieve by practicing the Socratic method? Select one: a. He hoped to show that knowledge is impossible. b. He wanted to show that a skillful debater could win any side of any argument. c. He wanted to display the fact that he was indeed the wisest man in all of Greece. d. He wanted to detect misconceptions and reveal them by asking the right questions.

Answer 1

D.

Step-by-step explanation:

The Socratic Method is a method of questioning developed by Socrates. In this method, he tried to show that the student's mind is contradictory, thus he counter-questions them helping the students to come to viable conclusions.

Socrates believed that students tend to learn through critical and logical reasoning. Thus he helped the students find flaws in their own ideas and to correct these ideas. He would reveal the misconceptions to students in their own ideas by asking the right questions.

Thus from the given options, the correct one is D.