![]() ![]() The first being that he feels he is doing the work of the gods, and the second being that what he does promotes a higher level of thought and wisdom changing his ways would go against the fundamentals Athens was built upon. Socrates goes on to refuse changing his ways in order to avoid death for two reasons. ![]() He reasons that those who are mad should not be killed, but institutionalized instead. ![]() Socrates argues that he could not have intentionally corrupted Athenian youth through two premises: The first being that he would certainly not want to live amongst those who have been corrupted- after all, why would he want to interact with a society whose beliefs are askew? And he supplements this with his second premise- if he did want to live amongst those he corrupted it could only be because he was mad, and therefore unintentional. So, in essence, he maintains that he is not a smart man, but the Oracle was not flawed in its testimony. By knowing this, he has obtained true wisdom, according to the above maxim. put it: that “true wisdom consists in knowing that you know nothing.”Socrates acknowledges the fact that he knows nothing, at least in areas which he is unlearned in. Socrates considered this to be a serious flaw, and, as Bill S. However, in questioning politicians, poets, and artisans, he found that they claimed to know of matters they did not know about. ![]()
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