How many times does Socrates employ the technique of questioning: “Wouldn’t it?”
“Make an image of our nature in its education and want of education…”
“They are in it from childhood…”
“It is a strange image…and strange prisoners you are telling of. They’re like us.”
“Such men would hold that the truth is nothing other than he shadows of artificial things.”
“Take a man who is released and suddenly compelled to stand up…and look up toward the light; and who in doing all this is in pain.”
He is somewhat nearer to what IS… he sees more correctly.
“Would his eyes hurt…” “And when he came to the light wouldn’t he have his eyes full of its beam and be unable to see even one of the things now said to be true?”
“He’d have to get accustomed”
“If such a man were to come back down again and sit in the same seat, on coming suddenly from the sun would his eyes get infected with darkness?”
“Wouldn’t it be said of him that he went up and came back with his eyes corrupted”
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How many times does Socrates employ the technique of questioning: “Wouldn’t it?”