Thoughts about earlier thinking

My thoughts about earlier thinking…..i would say that I’ve changed the way I think about certain things on a philosophical level.  What I mean is that now that I’ve been introduced to a new way of thinking, I take more things into consideration and I ask far more questions than I used to.  I’ve learned that philosophers always ask “why” and they always try and prove another person’s way of thinking wrong.  The one person that I can think have that did such things was Socrates.  He always used this form of discussion in arguments called “Socratic Irony” or “Socratic Method.”  Socratic irony is a form of inquiry and debate between individuals with opposing viewpoints based on asking and answering questions to stimulate critical thinking and to illuminate ideas. It is a dialectical method, often involving an oppositional discussion in which the defense of one point of view is pitted against the defense of another; one participant may lead another to contradict him in some way, strengthening the inquirer's own point. (Think about the question before you speak.)  I somewhat appeal to how Socrates went about discussions and his style of thinking because his main thing was that you need to know what you’re talking about, and have enough intelligence and whit to be able to argue you’re believes and hold your position.