Portrait of Socrates

 

Socrates

470–399 BCE · Socratic

You'd rather ask a good question than win an argument. You suspect most people, yourself included, know less than they think, and you find that exciting rather than frightening.

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

What you’d believe

  1. The examined lifeA human life is only worth living if one continually questions oneself and one's values.
  2. Virtue is knowledgeTo know the good is to do it; wrongdoing stems from ignorance, not malice.
  3. Socratic ignoranceWisdom begins in admitting how little one knows.

Who else you could have been