HUM 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: General Idea, Ruling Class
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Both ironic, interestingly opposites of each other. Socrates claims not to know much of anything (book 1) (justice, piety, wants anyone with that knowledge to teach him about it) - clearly has a better understanding than the others about everything. Dr. pangloss has an answer for everything know it all guy . Explains everything terrible that happens in the book and gives and uneducated reasoning for why it happened. Both characters are arguing against or engaged in some kind of change of the status quo. Socrates methods are hostile towards the status quo. Speaks as though he is making logical points but it is wrong or missing. Both characters are arguing against the re-evaluation of the status quo . Socrates ideas are hostile towards status quo no one knows what justice is. Pangloss (factoring in the humor and irony) he is a character designed to question the status quo.
