It is a lost art; a contribution from the vestiges of Western Philosophy which was once the pinnacle of an admired approach. It is a cousin of another from a quote attributed to that “first philosopher”: That an unexamined life is not worth living. Together — of an internal examination coupled with an external analysis — they constitute the basic foundation of knowledge and the pursuit of truth. High schools have abandoned the approach; colleges avoid it as being too time-consuming; and in the end, we have just become a polemical society drowning in our own indoctrination of thoughtless regurgitations of convenient soundbites. For, the Socratic Method is that which the child first begins with: Why? It is the question based upon curiosity, of a natural desire to seek the Truth. It is, furthermore, a refusal to accept an answer of why and how we do things, of what we assert to know, “just because”, and instead, to keep pushing to the outer limits of knowledge until certainty and certitude are attained. That is why, for Federal and Postal employees who suffer from a medical condition such that the medical condition prevents the Federal or Postal employee from performing one or more of the essential elements of one’s Federal or Postal job, a call to a competent attorney will result in being subjected to a form of the Socratic Method: Questions in order to ascertain whether or not you are eligible and entitled to Federal Disability Retirement benefits. For, in the end, the...

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