Answer to Question #247716 in Philosophy for Uio

Question

1. How reflecting, analyzing, criticizing and "knowing you know nothing" can be used as a tool to open new ideas?



2. Based on your Socrates' quotation "The unexamined life is not worth living" in what way that the process of self- examination can help a human person in achieving the holistic understanding of himself/herself?

Answer 1

1. "The main genuine insight is realizing that you know nothing" This exemplary statement by Socrates implies that main an individual who feels that he realizes nothing will attempt to accomplish information from anybody and everybody he runs over in life then that individual may be a ruler or a begger. 

2. An unexamined daily routine does not merit experiencing. Through this assertion, Socrates implies that an unexamined human existence is denied of the significance and motivation behind presence. To turn out to be completely human means to utilize our profoundly created personnel of thought to raise our reality over that of simple monsters