{"id":23101,"date":"2024-08-08T18:38:57","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T13:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=23101"},"modified":"2024-08-08T18:46:46","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T13:16:46","slug":"socrates-the-philosopher-who-said-he-knows-that-he-knows-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/socrates-the-philosopher-who-said-he-knows-that-he-knows-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"Socrates \u2013 the Philosopher who said he knows that he knows nothing | Ethics for UPSC Civil Services Examination | Triumph IAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-22780\" src=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/A-Comprehensive-Classroom-cum-Test-Series-1-150x58.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"986\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/A-Comprehensive-Classroom-cum-Test-Series-1-150x58.png 150w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/A-Comprehensive-Classroom-cum-Test-Series-1-300x115.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 986px) 100vw, 986px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/b><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_68 ez-toc-wrap-center counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-light-blue ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title \" >What's Inside this Blog!<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/socrates-the-philosopher-who-said-he-knows-that-he-knows-nothing\/#Socrates_%E2%80%93_the_Philosopher_who_said_he_knows_that_he_knows_nothing\" title=\"Socrates \u2013 the Philosopher who said he knows that he knows nothing\">Socrates \u2013 the Philosopher who said he knows that he knows nothing<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/socrates-the-philosopher-who-said-he-knows-that-he-knows-nothing\/#Relevant_for_Public_Ethics_Integrity_and_Aptitude\" title=\"[Relevant for Public Ethics, Integrity and Aptitude]\">[Relevant for Public Ethics, Integrity and Aptitude]<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/socrates-the-philosopher-who-said-he-knows-that-he-knows-nothing\/#EthicsBlogoterms\" title=\"#EthicsBlogoterms\">#EthicsBlogoterms<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/socrates-the-philosopher-who-said-he-knows-that-he-knows-nothing\/#Related_Blogs_%E2%80%A6\" title=\"Related Blogs &#8230;\">Related Blogs &#8230;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/socrates-the-philosopher-who-said-he-knows-that-he-knows-nothing\/#Find_More_Blogs%E2%80%A6\" title=\"Find More Blogs&#8230;\">Find More Blogs&#8230;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Socrates_%E2%80%93_the_Philosopher_who_said_he_knows_that_he_knows_nothing\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Socrates \u2013 the Philosopher who said he knows that he knows nothing<\/span><\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Relevant_for_Public_Ethics_Integrity_and_Aptitude\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\"><em>[Re<span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">levant for Public <\/span><\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><em><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Ethics, Integrity and Aptitude<\/strong><\/em><em><b>]<\/b><\/em><\/span><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-23102\" src=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/s-150x83.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"806\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/s-150x83.png 150w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/s-300x167.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 806px) 100vw, 806px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #800000;\"><strong>Socrates \u2013 the Philosopher who said he knows that he knows nothing<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Whole of Western Philosophy is described as either before Socrates or after Socrates. Such is the effect of this single philosopher. But Socrates became a teacher because he could not bear the propaganda commuted under the garb of philosophy by the Sophist. To counter this moral decay Socrates decided to engage with fellow citizen in a sort of question-answer session involving deductive-dialectical process i.e. analyzing the whole problem from its smallest denominator and when found with an answer synthesizing it all to make a maxim.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Before any conversation Socrates started with empty slate and just countered the seeker with another question till the analysis got to the basic tenet of that proposition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Socrates himself said <strong>\u201cThe only thing I know is that I do not know\u201d.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">He regarded himself as Maieutic (midwife) for the seeker who he considered is already pregnant with wisdom and his task is just to act as nurse to smoothen the birth process of his wisdom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Socrates was a peripatetic (a roaming teacher) and kept on engaging anyone into conversation starting with the question of the seeker. Knowledge, he said, is formed in the mind by the capacity of intellect which elaborates the finding of the senses.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #800000;\"><strong>Some of Socrates famous saying:<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">The unexamined life is not worth living.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you&#8217;ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you&#8217;ll become a philosopher.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Virtue is knowledge.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">After Socrates; Greek Philosophy which we call more generically as Ancient Western Philosophy became less metaphysical and more logical with sound backing of universal ethical principles. 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