Boundary between my knowledge and my ignorance?
How can I know what I do not know? How can I trace that boundary between knowledge and ignorance?
In the dialogue “Apology Plato writes about Socrates while in the dungeon just before drinking the hemlock that the citizens of Athens condemned him to be executed.
In the dungeon shortly before drinking from the hemlock cup Socrates spoke to his followers. He spoke about the accusations against him at the trial. He said that the sworn indictment against him was “Socrates is guilty of needless curiosity and meddling interference, inquiring into things beneath Earth and in the Sky¦ Socrates further adds that he is accused of teaching the people of Athens, to which Socrates vehemently denies that he is a teacher. He points out that in matters of wisdom he has only a small piece of that territory; the wisdom that he does have is the wisdom not to think he knows what he does not know. Socrates conjectures that he has the wisdom to recognize the boundary of his present knowledge and to search for that knowledge that he does not have. “So it seems at any rate I am wiser in this one small respect: I do not think I know what I do not.
For Socrates a necessary component of wisdom is to comprehend what one is ignorant of.
Am I wise? Do I know what I am ignorant of? I certainly know that I am ignorant of astronomy and psychology. There are many things about which it is obvious to me that I am ignorant of. Are there things about which I am not even aware of my ignorance? Are there matters about which I think I am knowledgeable of but which I am, in fact, ignorant of?
When I ask myself these questions I become conscious of a great number of things about which I am ignorant. Does this mean I am like Socrates in this matter? I do not think so. Socrates is speaking about two types of ignorance about which most people are unconscious of.
I think that Socrates is speaking of our ‘burden of illusion’. People are unconscious of the superficiality of much that they think they know and they are unconscious of a vast domain of knowledge that is hidden from the non critical thinker.
The uncritical mind has no means for discovering these illusions. CT (Critical Thinking) is the keystone for discovering these illusions. The Catch-22 here is how can one develop a critical mind when they are deluded into thinking they have a critical mind?
When our educational system has not taught our citizens how to think critically how can our citizens ever pull themselves out of this deep hole of illusion?
Boundary between my knowledge and my ignorance?
Boundary between my knowledge and my ignorance?
I think that Socrates is speaking of our ‘burden of illusion’. People are unconscious of the superficiality of much that they think they know and they are unconscious of a vast domain of knowledge that is hidden from the non critical thinker.
Assuming people are unaware of their own lives and limitations might be considered ignorance. Or perhaps arrogant or magisterial.
Assuming people are unaware of their own lives and limitations might be considered ignorance. Or perhaps arrogant or magisterial.
I AM AWESOME MAN
Boundary between my knowledge and my ignorance?
Nomad;562259 wrote: I think that Socrates is speaking of our ‘burden of illusion’. People are unconscious of the superficiality of much that they think they know and they are unconscious of a vast domain of knowledge that is hidden from the non critical thinker.
Assuming people are unaware of their own lives and limitations might be considered ignorance. Or perhaps arrogant or magisterial.
Or obvious to even the most casual observer.
Assuming people are unaware of their own lives and limitations might be considered ignorance. Or perhaps arrogant or magisterial.
Or obvious to even the most casual observer.
Boundary between my knowledge and my ignorance?
Or obvious to even the most casual observer.
I assume nothing. Ive no idea what it really means to walk in another mans/womans shoes. Other peoples lives are equally as valid as my own regardless of what I think I know about appearances.
I assume nothing. Ive no idea what it really means to walk in another mans/womans shoes. Other peoples lives are equally as valid as my own regardless of what I think I know about appearances.
I AM AWESOME MAN
Boundary between my knowledge and my ignorance?
my knowlege and ignorance resides in the same brain cell.............the only one i have left...........:-2 