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Moreover, the quality of the questions students ask determines the quality of the thinking they are doing.

That is, we ask questions only to get thought-stopping answers, not to generate further questions.

There is a special relationship between critical thinking and Socratic Questioning because both share a common end. Critical thinking gives one a comprehensive view of how the mind functions (in its pursuit of meaning and truth), and Socratic Questioning takes advantage of that overview to frame questions essential to the quality of that pursuit.

pre-thinking the main question to be discussed using the approach of developing prior question

list of questions which probe the logic of the first question,

Physical desire, they note, is held in common with the animal kingdom. Hence, it is of a lower order of reaction and stimulus than a rationally induced love-

fondness and appreciation of the other

friendship, but also loyalties to family and polis-one's political community, job, or discipline.

uggesting that the proper basis for philia is objective: those who share our dispositions, who bear no grudges, who seek what we do, who are temperate, and just, who admire us appropriately as we admire them, and so on.

Friendships of a lesser quality may also be based on the pleasure or utility that is derived from another's company.

The first condition for the highest form of Aristotelian love is that a man loves himself.

reflection of his pursuit of the noble and virtuous, which culminate in the pursuit of the reflective life

Agape refers to the paternal love

brotherly love for all humanity.

logic of mutual reciprocity