「蘇格拉底對話」在當代獲得哲學諮商與心理治療領域的重視，本文探究蘇格拉底對話的理念與背景、理論根據、程序、特徵與規則，嘗試提出此一方法在哲學教育可有的應用。尤其，兒童哲學與哲學諮商二課程都有強調團體討論的面向，似乎更適於使用蘇格拉底對話。本文附錄以「何謂家人？」為探討主題，以蘇格拉底對話為探討方式，呈現一種哲學教育現場的可能性。

Socrates' Dialogue is highly estimated by contemporary scholars of philosophical counseling and psychotherapy, and this paper is to explore the ideas, background, rationale, procedure, features and rules of Socrates' Dialogue as well as attempt to propose possible applications of such a methodology in the education of philosophy. In particular, the courses of both philosophy for children and philosophical counseling are oriented toward the aspect of group discussion and therefore more suitable for the application of Socrates' Dialogue. Here in this article, we explore the question of “What is Family?” in the light of Socrates' Dialogue so as to present another possibility on the arena of the education of philosophy.