Socrates: Plato's Search For A Good Life

Register to read the introduction… Socrates also thought if knowledge includes everything that is good, then virtue is a part of knowledge. If virtue is beneficial to our well-being, and if virtue is a most quality of the soul, then it must include wisdom, since if it were used unwisely it would be detrimental to our well-being. Socrates consistently argued with his colleagues in search for an absolute meaning. Generally, the conversation usually continued of a series of manipulations ending with the question unanswered. However, it seems Socrates never really searched for an answer, simply an understanding. Some questions need not clean answers, but answers that give a general understanding of possibilities. Through knowledge, people can achieve an understanding. The search for a good life and for happiness has probably always been central to human activity. Furthermore, good life would not be unusual to think that living in the common ways. Socrates represents the enlightenment attitude about the …show more content…
The influence of Socrates on his fellow Greeks cannot be measured. Plato, his most famous student, worshiped Socrates and was the primary author of his life and times. Plato would go on to cite Socrates in his future works and with future students, such as Aristotle. The influence of Socrates’ philosophical thoughts on modern society is also another factor that is hard to measure. He challenged the youth to think outside the box and question the norm, to not accept what people had always equal answer and to figure it out. He wanted the youth to be independent and think about truth, morality, virtue, and ethic that making a good life themselves, but today's youth is lacking. Even twenty-four centuries after his death, Socrates is still influencing philosophers and students of morals and