the mayeutic entry derives from the Greek "μαιευτικός" which means "parturition" or "give birth"; then based on its etymology we can define this word as "giving birth to the truth" or "giving birth to the truth". The real Spanish academy exposes mayeutics as an adjective, which belongs to or is related to mayeutics. This is a very important term in philosophy that is described as that teaching method focused on allowing the student to manifest and exhibit a series of knowledge, concepts, etc. After an exposition of questions, he did not know that he enjoyed them. In other words, it is a technique that a teacher uses, through questions for the student to share a series of knowledge that he did not know he had.
Mayeutics is of utmost importance in philosophy because it was a philosophical method of teaching and research proposed by the great Athenian classical philosopher Socrates, who gives it this name, since the mother of this philosopher was a midwife and also that he possessed the ideology that knowledge was to give birth or procreate new knowledge; therefore it is assumed that this technique or method and together with its concept date from around 2500 years.
The main purpose or object of maieutics is that the student reaches knowledge and knowledge by his own means, as well as his own analysis and conclusions; avoiding that it is by means of a simple learned knowledge. The way to carry out this technique starts once the student is asked about a problem or issue in particular, then his answer is quickly debated starting from the original concepts; and from this debate an original concept emerges that comes from the previous one.
