Socratic Seminar

Intellectual conversations have taken place throughout history and lead to great thoughts from great minds. The ability to look at life and the ideals proposed by others in an educational way is as beneficial to the mind as any other learning strategy. Because everyone has an opinion there is always room for them in discussions, although it takes much logic to lead these discussions and propose questions to the group anybody can insert ideas that will fund the seminar. Our discussion was focused around the four virtues proposed by Socrates millenniums ago: prudence, fortitude, temperance, justice. All that was required of the group that we bounced ideas and opinions around in order to further out knowledge in the discussion. As questions were asked that called upon our ideals and perceptions of the modern world we were constantly learning new things about ourselves and others. It took participation by many to convey the ideas that we held in store to the other members of our group. As the seminar raged about what traits our valued in our society and how this was different between those of cultures long ago I came to a certain understanding, that there was more to learn from this conversations than everyones opinions. I was constantly wondering how I would react to the questions being posed on a private basis and how interesting some one on one conversations would be, this made me wonder if it was necessary to provoke educational discussions on my own, for my own benefit. This seminar today was very insightful and helped me understand a lot about my classmates and myself.

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