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Theresa Wise
Philosophy 101
M. Washburn

Socrates said that no harm could come to a good person. He felt that it was the person that you have been that relates to a good life and not the length of time you lived. The quality of life that you led is much more important than anything else in his eyes. He would have rather lived a short time and lived with virtue than have lived a very long and empty unexamined life.
Socrates' main focus of what was good in life was the tending to of one's soul. He did not see himself as a teacher but as a physician, a midwife that leads a person to find knowledge, the knowledge that we all have within us but must be guided many times in order to find it. Knowledge is wisdom to Socrates and it is wisdom......

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