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Socrates Philosophical Problem

The problem lies in lack of knowledge which often leads men to mistake bad things for good. His aim in his philosophical dialogs were to establish an understanding of knowledge through questioning and debate. He believed in many universal truths and by the exercise of reason one may come to an understanding of what was good. In this time philosophy was lacking moral and political philosophies and there was not a clear understanding of the soul. Socrates tried to solve the problem through knowing ones self as a moral obligation. There are many truths that Socrates believed for example "Virtue is Knowledge". Guthrie elaborates, "Everyone has heard of the 'Socratic paradox', his statement that 'virtue is knowledge'. Perhaps it begins to look a little less paradoxical when we see that what it would naturally mean to a contemporary was more like: 'You can't be efficient unless you take the trouble to learn the......

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