%0 Journal Article
%T Dialogue and discussion: Reflections on a Socratic method
%A Hannah Marije Altorf
%J Arts and Humanities in Higher Education
%@ 1741-265X
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1474022216670607
%X This article starts from the observation that Socratic dialogues in the Nelson¨CHeckmann tradition can create a sense of belonging or community among participants. This observation has led me to the current argument that Socratic dialogue offers an alternative to more prominent forms of conversation, which I have called ¡®discussion¡¯ and ¡®discourse of uncritical acceptance.¡¯ I explain the difference between these forms of conversation by considering the role of experience in Socratic dialogue and the requirement that participants put themselves in each other¡¯s shoes. My argument is structured according to the different phases in a Socratic dialogue and placed within the literature on this method, as well as Hannah Arendt¡¯s writing on imagination
%K Gustav Heckmann
%K Hannah Arendt
%K imagination
%K Leonard Nelson
%K Socratic dialogue
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1474022216670607