The Socratic Dialogue

The Socratic Dialogue

In our class "Forbidden books," our main focus is understanding why books are banned by certain places in the world, where book banning originated from, and why they're still getting banned today. We read books like Fahrenheit 451 (really good book, highly recommend giving it a read), which taught us how terrifying a world would be without the freedom to knowledge about subjects. We looked over Socrates life and learned about why he was forced to drink poison for his actions, along with studying how he thought and how he teached those that would listen to him. One of which is known as the Socratic method.

The Socratic method is basically just questioning everything like a toddler curious about the world. "Why is the sky blue?" A question I'm sure we've all asked as children. There is a danger to this method for one reason. If you question everything about someone, they will begin to dig deeper and deeper into their beliefs, their understanding of it. You can only go as far as somebody knows about what you're questioning, so once you reach that point where they can no longer answer, it is more than likely that they're gonna be aggravated with the fact they can no longer defend their beliefs. Nobody likes that feeling so often it won't be of best interest to push somebody that far unless you know they can handle it. That is why Socrates got sentenced to death, because it was due to him questioning every single thing that it just got on everybody's last nerves. 

We take a similar approach in this action project by creating a controversial question to make a script for. Where we have one playing the role of Socrates in this case me and another as the one being questioned about their thoughts of whatever question is given. My partner Trinity and me, after some arguments, came around to decide that our question would be "Is a mosquito's life worth that of a human being?" Personally I enjoy film and just overall acting in general. I also wanted to take a less depressing approach than most of my peers and past people that have done this project. This is the end result and I hope you enjoy.

https://vimeo.com/388642317