Socrates and his pursuit
The pursuit for the meaning of knowledge, a search the scholar Socrates had great difficulty achieving. He takes us into a world of questioning and makes us contemplate our thoughts of the particular concept on hand. In order to focus on the statements given to him, which were to defuse his drive of the question, he analyzed. Analyzing brought upon a whole variety of methods, which in turn broke down the big question into countless smaller questions. Evidently the definitions given to him are disproved, a repeated scenario for young Theaetetus. Thus, Socrates explored human thought to a point only a few men in history have achieved and we can that this was an art he tried to teach Theaetetus and those who were interested. This is what must be proven, whether Socrates’ teachings were to alter the behavior of how the pupil sees knowledge or to just change the pupil’s knowledge. Part of Socrates great art was to find a reasonable question out of statements given to him. Theaetetus was always asked to answer honestly and without regret the questions that were given to him. Take for example the first question given to him-what is knowledge? Socrates would then focus on the response Theaetetus gave him and determined its credib
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