What is Socratic wisdom?
Socratic wisdom: knowing and accepting that there are things we do not know. You have to get rid of your pretenses to knowledge and understand that there are limitations. This will lead to humility. The problem with Socrates is that his constant questioning and attempt at revealing others’ ignorance annoyed people. It’s one thing to know that you don’t know everything, but it’s another to humiliate others. Inquiry should be collaborative and joyful. His destructive questioning left him at odds with his community, making him, in some ways, a failure, a disconnect. (Anna) Socratic wisdom can be easily summed up as knowing that/what you don’t know. This idea of wisdom calls for a person to purge his or her pretense of knowledge. This hemlock laden slope is rather sticky. The type of questioning is referred to as Elenchus which is the critical questioning of another person and their area subject matter expertise. The real question becomes not are their limits to this form of wisdom but wha
