Galileo

I believe that the point that Galileo is trying to make in his dialogue is very similar to the Socratic method of thinking. Galileo, just like Socrates, does not want us to just accept one way of thinking. We cannot accept what the majority of society thinks. Just because there is a majority does not make it right. There needs to be room for new ideas and people need to be look beyond the majority view. People need to be willing to question everything that this thrown their way, rather than simply accepting everything as fact. If we can get more people to think outside of the box then there are so many more things that we can discover. Back in Galileo’s time, some of the greatest thinkers were seen as weird or outcasts because they went against what everyone else saw as fact. These days there are too many people who accept everything as fact and don’t really search to find their own truths. Galileo is trying to get people to ask themselves how they really know things are true. There are so many things in our world that can seem like they are one way but are actually another, and if we just question things sometimes we can find what is really true, rather than following everyone else’s ways of thinking.