socrates developed a question and answer method to arrive at important truths.
socrates developed a question and answer method to arrive at important truths.
who developed a question and answer method to arrive at important truths?
socrates
the leading philosophers of the period preceding greece's golden age were thales, pythagoras, heraclitus, protagoras, and democritus. socrates investigated ethics and politics. his greatest pupil, plato, used socrates' question-and-answer method of investigating philosophical problems in his famous dialogues. plato's pupil aristotle established the rules of deductive reasoning but also used observation and inductive reasoning, applying himself to the systematic study of almost every form of human endeavor. outstanding in the hellenistic period were epicurus, the philosopher of moderation; zeno of citium, the founder of stoicism; and diogenes of sinope, the famous cynic. the oath of hippocrates, the father of medicine, is still recited by newly graduating physicians. euclid evolved the system of geometry that bears his name. archimedes discovered the principles of mechanics and hydrostatics. eratosthenes calculated the earth's circumference with remarkable accuracy, and hipparchus founded scientific astronomy. galen was an outstanding physician of ancient times.
culture of greece
yet among the various portions of the church we must, he tells us, distinguish four classes: 









































bullet::::1. sects that have retained all the truths taught in the scriptures









































bullet::::2. sects that, while retaining the more important truths, have mingled with them superstitions and errors









































bullet::::3. sects that have retained the fundamental truths, but have added doctrines incompatible with them









































bullet::::4. sects that have set the fundamental verities aside altogether
fundamental articles (theology)