Friday, 8 July 2016

Apply Socratess specific understanding of wisdom to analyze and explain Oedipuss hubris and eventual downfall.

Socrates (c.€‰470€“399 BCE) left no written record of his philosophy or his teachings.
Everything we know about Socrates and his understanding of the qualities of wisdom come to us
secondhand, primarily from the writings of his follower Plato (c. 428€“347 BCE) and his student
Xenophon (c.€‰431€“354 BCE).

In Platos Apologia Socrates
(Apology of Socrates), which recounts Socrates's defense of himself at his
trial in 399 BC, Plato quotes Socrates as saying that an unexamined life is not worth living.
In other words, it's vitally important to "know thyself," and it's equally important
for a person to know what they don't know.

To "know
thyself" and to discern the limits of one's knowledge, Socrates employed a
question-and-answer method of elenchus (examination) attributed to him and
called the "Socratic method." Socrates believed that self-knowledge occurs only in the
context of a question-and-answer dialogue with others.

By this method,
Socrates believed, a person does not...







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