Sentences with phrase «socratic irony»

Huckleberry Finn is a classic illustration of Socratic irony in juxtaposing the moral contradictions of slavery from a first person narrative, by an author who, himself, experienced an epiphany and moral awareness about the injustice of slavery in his lifetime.

From Lear's interpretation of Socratic irony, we learn that the proper response to the insuperable limits of human knowledge, to the perplexities arising in the midst of what we thought we understood, is wonder.

Lear marvels that so much of what passes for commentary on Socratic irony in Plato's dialogues has to do exclusively with the question of whether Socrates dissembles, whether he wears a mask of unknowing behind which lurks either certainty about important matters or skepticism, perhaps even nihilism.