viernes, 7 de diciembre de 2012

APOLOGY 2


Socrates claims he is in court because he posseses a certain kind of wisdom. While his prosecutors think he is in court because he is currputing the young with new and false gods. 
Is socrates reflecting humility or is he boasting? Does he actually believe he is superior to other poeple or is he saying that he is not? According to the Oracle story, Socrates himself does not think he is the wisest of all or superior to the rest, but the oracle does believe he is, so this is the reason for his quest of searching people who are wiser than him. He is trying to make people stop thinking about him in a divine way, by saying that we are all human.

He never claims himself that he is wise, but he also mentions that he is a little wiser than the rest because he knows nothing. He mentions that the slight advantage he has over the rest  is that he knows that he knows nothing.

Relating socrates with jesus: they both died for what they believed in and they didn't really give lectures, they both let people learn implicitly (asking questions, and letting people figure stuff out for themselves. 
Now I understand why benjamin franklin describes humility as imitating Socrates and Jesus.




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