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Many people have there own view of what wisdom is. Some believe wisdom comes with age and experience. Some believe wisdom is a form of intelligence and that geniuses are wise. The dictionary states that being wise is having or showing good sense or good judgment or being aware of what’s going on. All can be summed up into one word “knowing”. How many of us are “all knowing”? The truth is no one really knows or understands everything. Most our opinions of life are just theories, educated guesses. Socrates believed no one is actually wise in truth. Wisdom is something achieved through knowledge of virtues, which is conformity to a standard of right or a particular moral excellence. How many of us can say that we know what the right way to live is? “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows his wisdom in truth is worth nothing” (Socrates 8). Socrates understood that the only people, who are really wise, understand that the wisdom of man is not as vast as some presume. A truly wise person would have to understand specific virtues, “love, art and rhetoric; knowledge, scientific method and the nature of the cosmos” (Plato intro). These questions, only god could possibly have an accurate answer to. There is no one known to have this type of knowledge, so in Socrates’ mind you are wiser if you understand that no one is wise in truth.
Approximate Word count = 949
Approximate Pages = 3.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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