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Socrates demonstrates the importance of self – examination
Socrates maintained that as an unexamined life is not worth living
He believed that his role in society was to make people examine themselves.
He kept on telling his compatriots, his fellow Athenians; know thyself because; an unexamined life was not worthy living.
Socrates played it dual role in this endeavor.
-Role of a Gadfly
Like a gadfly he kept on stinging and nagging fellow Athenians, not to stop thinking for themselves.
He argued that an individual who was aware of his ignorance was much better intellectually than who was not because he would strive to know.
-Role of Midwife
Socrates likened his position in society to that of midwife.
He saw himself as merely assisting others to deliver dormant knowledge or ideas they already had in their minds, in the same way as midwives help mothers to deliver their babies.
He believed that all people had the capacity to know for themselves what they required was the proper environment and method to realize their potential
Towards this end he developed a method that came to be known as the Socratic- method, which was essentially interlocutory
Socrates believed in the live exchange and debate of issues as the best way to generate knowledge, this way he revolutionized thinking and gave philosophy its methods of questioning and argumentation
marto answered the question on April 30, 2019 at 11:48
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