Socrates favoured _truth_ as the highest value, proposing that it could be
discovered through reason and logic in discussion: ergo, dialectic. Socrates
valued rationality (appealing to logic, not emotion) as the proper means for
persuasion, the discovery of truth, and the determinant for one's actions. To
Socrates, _truth_, not _aretē_, was the greater good, and each person should,
above all else, seek truth to guide one's life.
Wiki "dialectics"
* Virtue—all virtue—is knowledge.
* Virtue is sufficient for happiness.
The idea that there are certain virtues formed a common thread in Socrates'
teachings. These virtues represented
the most important qualities for a person to have, foremost of which were the
philosophical or intellectual virtues.
Socrates stressed that "virtue was the most valuable of all possessions; the
ideal life was spent in search of the Good.
Socrates "truth", was (is) intellectual excellence
Although he claims he is not himself a teacher (Apology). His role, he claims,
is more properly to be understood as
analogous to a midwife (μαῖα maia). Socrates explains that he is himself barren
of theories, but knows how to bring
the theories of others to birth and determine whether they are worthy .The one
thing Socrates consistently claimed to have
knowledge of was "the art of love", which he connected with the concept of "the
love of wisdom", i.e., philosophy.
He never actually claimed to be wise, only to understand the
path a lover of wisdom must take in pursuing it.
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