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Thursday, June 5, 2008

[mukto-mona] Socrates Quote

"I am wiser than all people in Athens, since I know what I don't know while others don't know what they don't know".----Socrates.

 

I think it has been quoted from Plato's Apology in which Socrates defends himself at his trial. Here he is unmasking the pretenders to wisdom. According to Bertrand Russell,"This business of showing up pretenders to wisdom takes up all his time, and left him in utter poverty, but he feels it a duty to vindicate the oracle." The oracle of Delphi had asserted that no man was wiser than Socrates. Socrates believed that only God was wise. In order to disprove the god of error, he went to whole bunch of pretenders (the noted people in the city), and finally could confirm his belief as has been revealed in the above quote. 

 

I won't single out Ahmed Sharif. Who does not fall into the category specified by Socrates? It is the pretenders to wisdom who forced Socrates to drink hemlock.

 

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