Comparing Socrates Daimonion And Krishna

Socrates’ Daimonion and Krishna both were very persuasive with their methods in guiding Arjuna and Socrates to the path of self-knowledge. Daimonion and Krishna I think were both considered voices, like a conscious. I would like to think of them as the angel and the devil that appear on one’s shoulders in cartoons telling one what to do and what not to do, and what is wrong or right. Though being similar both Socrates and Krishna also had many differences.
Among these differences was that Socrates felt that people should have a mind and a life of their own. He felt that people should come to their own conclusions. He believed everyone makes their own choices in life. Socrates also believed that a wise man takes responsibility for his actions. …show more content…
Arjuna had to make a choice between fighting the war and killing his friends, relatives, or running away from the battlefield to keep the peace and nonviolence. Socrates decided to see his sentenced to death as a good thing because his Daimonion didn’t go against him getting up and going to court that day or talking to the jury about this verdict. He believed it was what God wanted and what he had planned for him. And though Socrates didn’t thinks so this was considered a significant form of wisdom.(http://aporia.byu.edu/pdfs/Kenny-Socratic_Knowledge_and_the_Daimonion.pdf. Aporia Vol. 13 number 1—2003. Socratic Knowledge and the Daimonion. D. PHILIP KENNY).
All in all, both Krishna and Daimonion where to me the conscious of Arjuna and Socrates which helped them make important decisions in their life to gain self-knowledge and to serve their duty to the gods. Arjuna fighting for justice while being detached and Socrates accepting his sentenced to death and seeing it as Gods will. Both similar and different in the concepts and how they went about things and of course in the outcomes of the decisions made based on the voices in their