The Dunning Kruger Effect In Plato's Republic

The Socratic Method is a form of debate to stimulate critical thinking by answering and questioning the ideas already under presumption. Starts with an opinion, leading towards confusion, which leads to argument, and hopefully will lead to new knowledge. It’s all question and answering. This Method of argument can also help with the Dunning Kruger effect. The Dunning Kruger effect is a way of thinking through incompetence. Individuals will tend to overestimate their own ability, unable to recognize the ability and extreme inabilities of others. However the Socratic Method plays a huge role with the Dunning Kruger effect, and individuals who argue with incompetence, can be trained to exponentially improve, recognize others skill level while

Socrates and Polemarchus were just ending a conversation about their views on justice. During the entire conversation, Thrasymachus a well-known sophist was listening, and he wasn’t that pleased by what he was hearing. He basically hurled himself at both of them, almost animal like. He starts to explain to Socrates that if he wants to know what justice is, then just ask questions, because it is a lot easier to ask then to answer. He tells Socrates that he must be clear and exact on what he means while explaining. Socrates, still a little shaken up, tells Thrasymachus that if he and Polemarchus said something that didn’t make sense, that they did it involuntarily. Thrasymachus found it humorous that Socrates answers with questions and to be ironic rather than giving answers. Socrates says it’s because he is a wise fellow and that since Thrasymachus knows what the nature of justice is. They talked about rulers and positions, and what injustice and justice is through people. Towards the end, Socrates says to Thrasymachus that they have found that an unjust person tries to do better that those like him and those unlike him, as Thrasymachus said earlier in conversation. At this point Thrasymachus is agreeing with Socrates and have come to an agreement, even though Thrasymachus said that he would never be able to agree with Socrates. He actually begins to blush as well. But came to an

(21b-23b) At this point Socrates stands in front of the jurors and uses his main instrument of philosophical investigation, the Socratic elenchus method. This method is a way to expose the interlocutor inconsistencies from their own belief. Socrates explains how he thought he found someone to be wise, a politician, and someone to thought of as wise to many. But through examination and his own experience, Socrates didn’t think he wasn’t as wise as he thought. Socrates was attempting to show him that he thought of himself wise, just ending with this man disliking him. As well as many other people present at that moment. Socrates kept approaching more people thinking they are wiser than the next, but the same thing happened and ended with that person disliking Socrates as well. From politicians to poets Socrates would use this method and the turn out would either be positive or negative. In Plato’s Apology, this however was negative towards his audience, because at this point a lot of hostility was already against Socrates. He tells this to show the audience where the accusations have come from. However, this functions with the Socratic Method, because it’s a method of elimination, and the Socratic Method searches for truth forming beliefs and messes with them to find consistency with other beliefs. Similar to that of which we see in the Socratic