Maieutics: Literally means giving birth, name that were given to midwives in the days of Greek philosophy Word bobbin is believed by Socrates that it precisely was the son of a midwife. It was to an interlocutor to illuminate the truth, to discover it for himself, to decode it in his soul, by means of a dialogue.
Maieutics ( from the Greek ¼±¹µÅĹ ° ·, by analogy to Maya, one of the Pleiades in Greek mythology ) it is a technique that consists in questioning a person to reach the knowledge not conceptualized. Maieutics is based in the dialectic, which is the idea that the truth is hidden in the mind of every human being.The technique is to ask partner about something ( a problem, for example ) and then it proceeds to discuss the response given by the establishment of general concepts. The discussion leads to the partner to a new concept developed from the earlier. Usually maieutics is often confused with irony or Socratic method and is attributed to Socrates.[1]The invention of this method of knowledge goes back to the 4th century BC and is generally attributed to the historical Socrates in reference to the work of Theaetetus of Plato. But the historical Socrates used the so-called Socratic irony to make partner understand that what is believed to know isn't what was thought as a belief and that her knowledge was based on prejudice. Maieutics, contrary to the irony, is based on a theory of recollection. In other words, if irony is based on the idea that knowledge of the partner is based on prejudice, maieutics believes knowledge is latent in a natural way in the consciousness and that it is necessary to discover it. This process of discovery of knowledge itself is known as a dialectic and is inductive in nature.
