Our book club decided to try Socratic seminars instead of just sharing opinions about what we read, but three months in and it feels like we're all performing some version of being intellectual rather than actually examining anything real. I'm wondering if we're missing something fundamental about how to create the conditions for genuine inquiry in a group.
More people experience this than they realize.
The group is mimicking the forms of philosophical inquiry while avoiding the vulnerability that makes questioning transformative.
“Where Are You with Socratic dialogue as method?”
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