Saturday, May 29, 2010

Socrates Reaction

Socrates
Nowadays there are not many people worry about what is good and the importance of the moral. Socrates was one of the philosophers which in his own life perception was trying to get at least the same knowledge among people and their beliefs of how values and moral works as well as justice. As Socrates realized people can have different perceptions about goodness and badness in the different cities or places around the world. He believes that there must be a unique meaning of values and justice and everybody around the world must believe the same. According to the history Socrates did not write anything, but all what he thought was transmitted by his followers. According to Plato he said and explained about Socrates philosophy and we can realize that he never founded a universal meaning but through irony he made people think they were ignorant, so just in that way they could realize about the real meaning of the moral or values as well as virtue and justice. I do believe there is not a universal meaning for a value or believe, but every single meaning must be closed to the truth without changing the main focus of the idea. It is not possible that something that is wrong for some people in some places is good. There is just one reality, and any way we cannot get the reality if we do not realize that we are wrong with it.
Socrates was trying to make people understand that all knowledge may be false and let them know that the reality could be other one. It is important to mention that people believe what they were taught since they were born and there is no way to know if they are wrong if there is nobody in capacity to let them know they are ignorant. That happened many times to many people who have been taught some things about different matters and there is someone who thinks different and through his questions and explanations make the other person change the way he thinks or even his believe. That is part of the Socratic Method in which the main purpose was to make people believe they were ignorant and by questioning they realized there was another reality.
One of the most important and recognized phrase of this philosopher was “As for me, all I know is that I know nothing”; this make us think that certainly we can believe in so many thinks, but what is the real meaning of our beliefs? Can I be assure that what I think is right and there is no other explanation? Is it real that there is a universal meaning for everything? The true is that we do not really know, and maybe the Socrates way of thinking was not credible!

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