Didactic vs Socratic - What's the difference?
didactic | socratic |
Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality. (I.e., didactic poetry)
* Macaulay
Excessively moralizing.
(medicine) Teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application.
Of or characteristic of the philosopher Socrates or his philosophical methods and/or views.
As adjectives the difference between didactic and socratic
is that didactic is didactic while socratic is of or characteristic of the philosopher socrates or his philosophical methods and/or views.As a noun socratic is
a follower of socrates.didactic
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Alternative forms
* didactick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- The finest didactic poem in any language.