PHIL 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Best Buddies International, Implicit Stereotype, The Examined Life
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Socrates is defending himself against a charge that has been brought against him. He will explain himself and justify his lifestyle. He makes the worse argument the stronger. He busies himself studying things in the sky and in the earth rather through productive trade. He teaches these things to others and corrupts the youth of athens. Socrates says: certainly i would pride and preen myself if i had this knowledge . Story of going to the oracle of delphi. They go to the pythian who inhales the smoke and the chaerephon interpretes her utterances. Socrates"s friend: is anyone wiser than socrates? . Oracle: no one was wiser than socrates! . Socrates does not interpret this to mean that he is wiser than everyone else, but that everyone is equally as wise as he. Socrates was amazed and asks what does the god mean? . So he went around asking other wise people to see how much they knew.
