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He suggested that ignorant individuals should partake of the Hemlock plant!

I agree.

2007-03-21 10:26:02 · answer #1 · answered by Bubba 2 · 0 0

First of all, I don't know what you mean by "tackle the whole subject of ignorance". Do you want to know what he thought about it? What he did about it?

Secondly, very few things are credited to Socrates directly, because he never wrote anything (or if he did, none of his writings survive). All we know of him we learn from his contemporaries- mainly Plato. Plato made Socrates a character in his dialogues, but we don't really know how much of what the character said was what Socrates would have said and how much was really Plato's opinion coming out of Socrates's mouth.

That said, in his actual life, Socrates battled ignorance by living the life of a teacher. He wandered around Athens engaging people in philosophical debate, helping them to think in ways they'd never thought before. He actually would ask them a question as though they knew the answer and he wanted them to tell him the answer, and then he would start asking them more questions. (This is where we get the term "Socratic Method" for the method of teaching by asking the student questions.) By pushing people into considering their long-standing beliefs and recognizing the flaws in those beliefs, he hoped to both cause people to recognize their own ignorance and help remedy it. Philosophical inquiry, he thought, caused you to move closer and closer to understanding the truth.

2007-03-21 10:33:46 · answer #2 · answered by IQ 4 · 1 0

Socrates thought that man should be educated to become better citizen. The most valuable gift a man could have is knowledge, and the greatest liability is ignorance. He was a great teacher using the dialectic method of proving the fallacies, and inconsistencies of certain truth.

2007-03-21 10:37:26 · answer #3 · answered by oscar c 5 · 0 0

Socrates talks all about ignorance and education in The Apology and The Republic. Check out book VII and book X in the Republic--that is the allegory of the cave and the philosopher king. He also talked about poets being ignorant. hesays that they are forth from reality. 1.)Maker- has the idea 2.) carpenter- makes it physical 3.) painter- paints his version of the physical thing 4.) poets only speak of what they've heard of the things

2007-03-21 10:28:08 · answer #4 · answered by jenny p 1 · 0 0

By getting awakened from slumber

2007-03-21 10:28:10 · answer #5 · answered by cabridog 4 · 0 0

"How did" the guys very died. He used dialog or debate, the status quo killed him for pointing out they where a bunch of idiots.

2007-03-21 10:28:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

To Andrew W.
Kind of hard to become a Christian if you died BEFORE THE BIRTH OF CHRIST!

2007-03-21 10:30:12 · answer #7 · answered by K 5 · 1 0

he never became a christian so that helped

2007-03-21 10:27:05 · answer #8 · answered by andrew w 7 · 0 0

Duh, I don't know

2007-03-21 10:26:20 · answer #9 · answered by BANANA 6 · 0 0

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