How to Improve your Critical Thinking

One reason Socrates was brought to trial was

• He had defected to the Spartans

• He was accused of corrupting the youth

• He had stolen from the Athenian treasury

• He did not work

In his discussions Socrates often claimed only that

• He was Athenian

• He was a philosopher

• He knew nothing

• He understood justice

Two followers wrote about Socrates, Plato and

• Aristophanes

• Alcibiades

• Euthydemus

• Xenophon

The Supreme Court adapts the Socratic method by formulating insightful

• Long speeches

• Hypothetical situations

• New laws

• Debates

In the Renaissance the Socratic method was adapted to teach

• Law

• Mathematics

• Botany

• Clinical medicine

Would you agree with Socrates that “the unexamined life is not worth living”? What does this really mean?