As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.

While watching the movie, featuring the extremely excited historian, we were introduced to a particularly fascinating philosopher, Socrates. I know that many of us have heard of him before and maybe even studied him in a few of our classes, but for those who want to learn more or just experience a recap please read on.

With the fact that Socrates did not leave behind a written form of his ideas we have had to learn them through others interpretations. From his students, to his best friends, we have found that Socrates was not only a disliked teacher during the time, but in fact he shaped our philosophical world. With his idea on the way of life should be lived, and the questions that he forces others to think about, he has created some of the most famous philosophical ideas. One of the most important and widely used is the Socratic Method.

The Socratic Method is the way that Socrates used to understand the world around him. He exclaimed that people would learn to memorize things, but not really understand them. While using this method he would ask someone what the definition of something is? Most of the time they would answer with several things that describe the word, but Socrates did not believe that this answer was good enough, but instead he was looking for one exact meaning. He wanted to understand the difficult questions in life and with this method he was able to hold a discussion and help everyone else figure out the answers while he was learning them himself.

To know truly, to seek wisdom, one must work toward understanding. If the question "what" leads us to see what we do and do not know, then the question "why" leads us to understand our world in a more full and fundamental manner.

Socrates has helped us better understand that it is easy to memorize what you are attempting to learn, but it is also just as easy to forget it. There are so many of us that have went through school cramming the night before an exam just so we could forget it the moment you leave the classroom. We all need to take a step back, attempt to understand what exactly Socrates was trying to teach us, and realize that we are only going to get one opportunity to live the life that has been given to us.

For more fun and exciting information on Socrates you can go to the site that I used to find some of my information.

http://www.greatbooksacademy.org/html/what_is_the_socratic_method_.html