Greek Philosophy Paper
Abbigail Blevins
One of Socrates main theories was the “Wisdom of Knowledge,” focuses on the more positive idea that wise people are very knowledgeable people. Socrates’ human wisdom separates him from other people, accounts for his status as divine epitome, and explains his conviction that he is obliged to live a life of philosophical examination. The concept of human wisdom is in the fundamentals for an understanding of the Apology. The received interpretations connect Socrates’ human wisdom with the recognition of ignorance. There is something strongly important right about this. However, these interpretations offer insufficient resources for explaining how Socrates could have been humanly wise before Apollo’s oracle. He falsely believed that he was not wise at all. The insinuation that Socrates failed to satisfy the conditions for human wisdom upon reception of the Delphic oracle is unacceptable and creates the search for an alternative. Socrates was humanly wise before the oracle because he loved wisdom, even though he did not know that he did. Socrates’ theory made the people upset and mad, which led him to kill himself.
His finest recognized work is “The Republic” where we find the scenarios of Simile of the Line and Allegory of the Cave. These two allegories explore the field of rationalism and empiricism, which are the main approaches of questioning what knowledge really is or else they form the basic understandings of knowledge from the philosophers’ point of view. There, however, exists a distinction in the two worlds of knowledge whereby he asserts the sense of experiencing failure to bring precision which is necessary to guarantee that what one perceives to know is true. The epistemology of a rationalist who believes in the power of reason is that knowledge is attained on the basis of self-evidence and principles. This is called the principles, in this case is not as a result of experience, but rather implied in the...