Socractic ignorance and the pursuit of human good What is Socratic ignorance? Give an example that relates to people today Socratic ignorance relates to the idea of knowing your own limitations...

Socractic ignorance and the

pursuit of human good

What is Socratic ignorance? Give

an example that relates to people today

Socratic ignorance relates to the

idea of knowing your own limitations Socrates was considered by many of his

contemporaries to be the wisest man of his time In an effort to discern whether

this was true he set out to find someone wiser than he was What he discovered

that while many people were more knowledgeable than he was about certain areas

they tended to assume that since they know a lot about one area they were wise

in many areas Socrates took a different approach He entered into

conversations with people by declaring his ignorance and asking the person he

was talking with to teach or enlighten him Many times he found out that he

already knew more than the other person, other times he learned from more from

them than he had previously known His wisdom was rooted in the practice of

knowing his own limitations and being willing to learn from others rather than

becoming proud of a little knowledge and resisting instruction from others