A classroom built on one question

“What do you mean by that?”

The only school in the world that teaches how to define.

One student proposes a definition. Classmates refine it, or try to tear it apart. The teacher judges every argument, point by point, and explains exactly why.

Draft → Refined

Justice

is giving people what they deserve.

is the prevention of crime.

— from the free sample essay

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Isidoros Parlamas

Isidoros Parlamas · 45 years studying Socrates in Plato's dialogues

Socrates was born in 470 BC — the year the Socratic calendar counts as its own year zero. In 2030, his 2,500th anniversary, horistics is, as far as I know, the first attempt in that span to turn how he worked through a definition into a methodology a classroom can use.

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