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Apology
Title: Apology
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 763 | Pages: 3.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Apology
Apology Paper
Socrates states that the only thing he knows is that he knows nothing. I feel that Socrates is saying that he recognizes the fact that he does not know much. Socrates does not try to pretend that he is this almighty person who pretends that they know things they don’t know. On page 44 from the Apology Socrates says:
"I am wiser than this man; it is likely that neither of us knows …showed first 75 words of 763 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 763 total…Socrates found that people on the whole really had no true knowledge. He observed that people were merely obsessed with the knowledge that they thought they had. This obsession led them to believe that they were knowledgeable in every field. When in fact, the most knowledge that some one had was usually only in one thing (skill), not many things, or not any true knowledge about the self, and of the true meaning of life.
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