s valuable (axiology/aesthetics), or what is good (ethics).
Prevailing methodological conventions of philosophy have changed from the ancient to modern periods, according to Geisler and Feinberg. As the book unfolds, it becomes clear that its authors' intention is to focus on the differences in philosophical perspective of twentieth-century secular analytical, epistemological, and metaphysical thought and Christianity. However, in order to accomplish this, Geisler and Feinberg provide a more or less chronological survey of philosophical argument, beginning with the classical Greek tradition and continuing forward. Accordingly, they identify three major ancient approaches to philosophical argument, associated with Socrates, Zeno, and Aristotle, respectively.
The Socratic method is one of interrogation, a persistent questioning that elicits answers in a way that allows the person answering to use innate reason to arrive at insight. At the heart of the Socratic discipline is a "presupposition . . . that truth is inborn, or native to the human mind."
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