Socrates' claim in the Apology that "the unexamined life is not worth living for a human being," had much meaning to it. For Socrates, philosophizing is the way to answer “what is the best way of life”. It is important to use our reason to discover the truth on how to live a happy life. Personally, living life following blind faith, believing things just because it is heard from another, living like a sheep, is not the way to know what makes you happy. The only way to find what will truly make you happy is by questioning and being curious, not just by going with what everyone else believes will make you live a truly happy, and satisfying life. The method Socrates used to discover the truth was dialectics. Dialectics is a form of dialogue that is cooperative and argumentative. It uses a form of cross-examination that
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Even after initially feeling weird about an elderly man’s affection to her young son, she chose to remain ignorant of the possibility of this man being a child molester, because of his “religiousness” and his educational background. The man was a teacher, and was also seemingly very religious. Religiousness is often identified with pureness, or goodness, which her reason for not arguing with her belief that this man could be bad. When I arrived in Africa and learned about this man, I disregarded this belief that he was a good man because he was “religious”. I dug deeper finding clues and things which we would often consider a red flag. Because of questioning and arguing her belief and looking for flaws in the belief that he was a good man because he was “religious”, the truth ended up being revealed after the child was questioned. She thanked me for opening the blinds to her ignorance, and saving her child, along with the other children near this man. He was brought to authorities and justice was
Even after initially feeling weird about an elderly man’s affection to her young son, she chose to remain ignorant of the possibility of this man being a child molester, because of his “religiousness” and his educational background. The man was a teacher, and was also seemingly very religious. Religiousness is often identified with pureness, or goodness, which her reason for not arguing with her belief that this man could be bad. When I arrived in Africa and learned about this man, I disregarded this belief that he was a good man because he was “religious”. I dug deeper finding clues and things which we would often consider a red flag. Because of questioning and arguing her belief and looking for flaws in the belief that he was a good man because he was “religious”, the truth ended up being revealed after the child was questioned. She thanked me for opening the blinds to her ignorance, and saving her child, along with the other children near this man. He was brought to authorities and justice was