SOCRATES - KNOWLEDGE

<BODY> <CENTER><FONT SIZE=5><B><FONT SIZE=6>SOCRATES</FONT><BR> THE EXAMINER</B></FONT></CENTER><P> <FONT SIZE=4><B>What can we Know?</B></FONT><P> In debating issues, Socrates insists on trying to develop a universally applicable definition. So it is clear that Socrates not only believed that there was such a thing as absolute knowledge and absolute truth and that these were ultimately knowable. Within many of the debates recorded in <A HREF="../04/04f01.html" TARGET="_top">Plato's</A> "Dialogues", definitions are proposed and refuted, but often no satisfactory conclusion is reached. Yet it was much later that the <A HREF="../t03/g007.html" TARGET="_top">Cynics</A> concluded that the failure to achieve the much sought after absolute definitions meant that knowledge is unattainable.<P> Socrates often boasted that he knew "nothing" and that this made him wiser than other men who thought they knew when in fact they were ignorant. For Socrates, the point of existence was the pursuit of true knowledge. The unexamined life is not worth living. <BR clear=left><BR> <HR width=100%> <A HREF="http://www.creatorix.com.au"><IMG SRC="../creatorix.gif" WIDTH="85" HEIGHT="40" BORDER="0" ALT="Creatorix" align=right></A> </BODY>