The author’s Socrates admonishes paramount awareness human limitations. If we do good to those we evaluate as good and evil to those we evaluate at the evil, and we are wrong, we have been made the world less just.
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All of a sudden he will catch sight of something wonderfully beautiful in its nature; that, Socrates, is the reason for all his earlier labors.
Socrates: I’m afraid that it might actually be sacrilegious to stand idly by while morality is being denigrated and not try to assist as long as one has breath in one’s body and a voice to protest with.
Socrates: But you do say that he who is a good rhapsode is also a good general. Ion: Certainly.
Socrates: For doing evil to another is the same as injuring him? Crito: Very true. Socrates: Then we ought not to retaliate or render evil for evil to anyone, whatever evil we may have suffered from him.
Is widely believed to have been a student of Socrates and to have been deeply influenced by his teacher’s unjust death. ‘s brilliance as a writer and thinker can be witnessed by reading his Socratic dialogues. Some of the dialogues, letters, and other works that are ascribed to him are considered spurious.
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All started at the Temple of Apollo In Delphi. One of his friends approached the oracle with the question: Is anyone wiser than Socrates? the answer was No. Socrates was profoundly puzzled by this episode. He claimed to know.
You ask a question, I said, to which a reply can only be given in a parable. Yes, Socrates; and that is a way of speaking to which you are not at all accustomed, I suppose.
Tell me, Socrates, have you got a nurse? Why do you ask such a question, I said, when you ought rather to be answering? Because she leaves you to snivel, and never wipes your nose: she has not even taught you to know the shepherd from the sheep. What makes you say that? I replied.
What is probable, gentlemen, is that in fact the god is wise and that his oracular response meant that human wisdom is worth little or nothing, and that when he says this man, Socrates, he is using my name as an example, as if he said: “This man among you, mortals, is wisest who, like Socrates, understands that his wisdom is worthless.”