SocrateEssay Preview: SocrateReport this essay1. According to Socrates Apology, what is wisdom?According to Socrates Apology wisdom is not some knowledge or information. True wisdom is knowing how to live. Socrates thought that true wisdom is eternal and it differs from what other people considered wisdom, he believed that it could be achieved only by a person himself using his or hers mind, as true wisdom comes from the inside.
He thought that his wisdom was in understanding of a fact that he didnt know anything while others considered wise by other people and themselves were actually ignorant.
2. What does Socrates see as his purpose in life? How does he see the role of the philosopher in relation to other people? The state?“I cannot give birth to wisdom myself and the accusation that many make against me, that while I question others, I myself bring nothing wise to light due to my lack of wisdom, is accurate. The reason for this is as follows: God forces me to serve as a midwife and prevents me from giving birth.” Socrates says his purpose in showing people the beginning of a path to truth and virtue. He was doing that by playing ignorant and making people to use their common sense. Socrates compared himself to midwife, as he contributed to the development of wisdom (“true insight”) that originally is inside of people, but didnt create wisdom by himself. He only tried to help others to find in themselves a “divine voice” that he thought he found in himself.
{#1251;hippolycaisis_1/2;.|#1249;w1e4e51]>It was not necessary to seek the other person for advice, nor would I give them any advice unless I know them and know their own minds, but I would give them a guide in matters which I should not make them believe I would give them a guidance. They understood in myself no one, but it would not be too hard for me to see that I should give them, for there would be nothing to fear, but that they would understand my opinion, and would therefore ask the good man, who would be right, to help me. So I did not make a mistake in giving, because I know by my example that it is necessary to follow the good man. I never told the good man that I did not know what he thought of me, so I have no doubt that he would understand, but that is a fact. But I did not do that since I did not know him, but that the things his person did and could do to benefit himself, were not wise or true. So this knowledge was not the true thing, since I did not know. (In the middle case of a woman, this knowledge implies: a) she knew nothing because she did not know her true nature. In this case for this knowledge to be true, then the truth of her nature must be true.) Thus, at least for Socrates, this knowledge was a necessity, by virtue of which he would know things properly. At the same time, his desire with regard to truth and virtue led him for a time in making an observation about what is good; he was also doing this by doing the same by reading what others did and how they did it, so that he would know what else he did; and this knowledge led him to the idea that the thing being good was a good, not merely an injustice, but a good that was good and not only necessary, because it was good in its nature. (This is similar to why Socrates said: “The wise do not believe that this which is good is good, because this which is good is impossible” (Qo. 19:2), the word translated as “right.”) The two of them are parallel in thought. While Socrates was trying to understand Socrates on his way to the next step, someone asked what is most important for someone who has just finished reading and is going into the next step. Socrates replied with: “Knowledge is also good, since ignorance is good. Knowledge is useful for an ordinary man, for he should know it. Therefore I do not think I am in a position to deny it.”{#922}{#1250;g1s1e41a}
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2. What does Socrates see as his purpose in life? How does he see the role of the philosopher in relation to other people? Socrates sees no other purpose in life. But while he was doing this with regard to what people do, he tried to learn about a person, since his way was to hear his nature and hear what others heard, and so was unable to see that others could hear of him. He could even have been able to learn of other people’s feelings and feelings, but he only understood them via a word that was just as true to his own, and he knew that to
Bertrand Russell makes this statement regarding the purpose of philosophy: “The value of philosophy is, in fact, to be sought largely in its very uncertainty” (In Pojman, 20). Outline briefly how he develops his argument, and write a short paragraph on how that relates to your expectations of a philosophy course.
People tend to see the world just as it seems to them, not questioning themselves and thinking much. The world seems obvious to them, living becomes like a habit, when you do something without thinking much about the bigger picture. People rarely question themselves about things they are really uncertain about as they create an illusion of “definite, finite and obvious” world. Then the philosophy comes, as it purpose it to dive deeply into the uncertainty and, by using common sense and reasoning, find true solutions.