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"Socrates used this claim of wisdom as the basis of his moral exhortation.
Accordingly, he claimed that the chief goodness consists in the caring of
the soul concerned with moral truth and moral understanding, that "wealth
does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing,
both to the individual and to the state", and that "life without examination
[dialogue] is not worth living". It is with this in mind that the Socratic
Method is employed.
The motive for the modern usage of this method and Socrates' use are not
necessarily equivalent. Socrates rarely used the method to actually develop
consistent theories, instead using myth to explain them. The Parmenides
shows Parmenides using the Socratic method to point out the flaws in the
Platonic theory of the Forms, as presented by Socrates; it is not the only
dialogue in which theories normally expounded by Plato/Socrates are broken
down through dialectic. Instead of arriving at answers, the method was used
to break down the theories we hold, to go "beyond" the axioms and postulates
we take for granted. Therefore, myth and the Socratic method are not meant
by Plato to be incompatible; they have different purposes, and are often
described as the "left hand" and "right hand" paths to the good and wisdom.
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