Essay On Love Of Wisdom

The love of wisdom, commonly referred to as philosophy, is the study of the ultimate nature of knowledge, reality, and existence. In philosophy, we ask ourselves questions like: “what is knowledge?” A regular person may answer that knowledge is being smart, but a philosophers would answer that knowledge is in knowing we really know nothing. Philosophy involves not only creating answers to metaphysics, epistemology, and logic questions, but also looking for influence or inspiration from the way in which people have answered such questions in the past. Therefore, a significant part of philosophy is its history, and through this history we have discovered a number of great philosophers who have created their own answers and arguments to these very questions from their own perspective, which may or may not be influenced by others, and building their own legacy. Philosopher Plato was a student to philosopher Socrates and was a teacher to Aristotle. He was born in 427 BCE to one of the wealthiest and politically active …show more content…
His philosophy made him admired by many, but also disliked by many. His theories were very controversial as he used logic and asked many questions he already knew the answers too. What made him admired was his wisdom by reason; he compelled audiences to deliver logical conclusions through problem, this was called the Socratic Method, a method he is very famous for. However, as sometimes people did not know the answer to various obvious questions, this made them seem foolish so these people detested Socrates. One of the most famous quotes is a philosophy of Socrates: “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” He was wise because he recognized his own ignorance. He was modest in the sense that despite him knowing many things about life, he still does not know everything, and whoever says they know everything is wrong. He did not lecture about what he knew. Socrates himself wrote