Socratic Humility

Socratic Humility | Issue 53 - Philosophy Now

Refuting pretenders to wisdom, Socrates tries to help them become more humble, and thereby remove the one modest way in which he is superior. Socrates' ...

What Socrates' 'know nothing' wisdom can teach a polarized America

Socrates taught that being humble about one's own views was a necessary step in searching for truth – perhaps the most essential one. That ...

Socratic Humility - Existential Comics

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Socrates' Timeless Lesson on Epistemological Humility - Medium

Socrates rocked us with “the unexamined life is not worth living”. But an examined life is far from an easy commitment; no one can really be ...

"The only thing that I know is that I know nothing." Socrates - Humility

“The only thing that I know is that I know nothing.” Socrates – Humility. Should we question what we are sure of? All students have run across “know-it-alls”.

Epistemic humility - Wikipedia

Other histories of the concept trace its origin to the humility theory of wisdom attributed to Socrates in Plato's Apology. James Van Cleve ...

Wisdom, Humility, and Socrates - Joshua N. Hook

In this blog post, Joshua Hook uses the example of Socrates to encourage us to question everything with humility.

Philosophical Humility, or, Admitting I Don't Know What I Don't Know

I have seen many a conscientious reader of Plato smirk when considering Socrates' plea that he knows one thing, he knows nothing.

The Wisdom of Unknowing: Exploring Socratic Humility ... - Medium

The Wisdom of Unknowing: Exploring Socratic Humility, Upanishadic Knowledge, and Mystical Insight ... Exploring the depths of human understanding, ...

A Philosopher Talks about the Importance of Humility

When students first encounter Socrates, it is not uncommon for them to imagine him as a paragon of humility, the philosopher who claimed to know only that he ...

Humility: Benjamin Franklin, Jesus and Socrates (Part I) - APU Edge

Benjamin Franklin mentions humility as the 13th virtue in his autobiography. Of humility, he states, “Imitate Jesus and Socrates.”

Humility: The Power of Staying Low - That's Philosophical

Socrates is often referred to as the prime example of “intellectual humility”. He believed that true wisdom is knowing you don't know anything.

Intellectual Humility - John Templeton Foundation

The Oracle of Delphi pronounced Socrates the wisest man in Athens. Paradoxically, what made him wise, unlike anyone else in Athens, was that he knew that he ...

The Humility of Socratic Discussion - CenterForLit

The Humility of Socratic Discussion. Kristen Rudd | July 18, 2016. We spent the June session of the Pelican Society's Office Hours pondering ...

Intellectual Humility | Philosophy Talk

Socrates was unique in possessing the virtue of intellectual humility. His wisdom was derived from his ability to recognize the limits of his own knowledge, and ...

Glenn Rawson, Socratic Humility - PhilPapers

Some Pre-Socratic Ideas of Change and Permanence.Diana Kendall - 1991 - Philosophy Now 1:19-20. Humility.David Cooper - 2005 - The Philosophers' Magazine 31:54- ...

How Socratic Seminar Teaches Humility - The Classical Difference

How Socratic Seminar Teaches Humility. Nov 27, 2018. Winter 2018. “Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.” C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, ...

Creating New Visions of Humility - MSU Libraries' Pub Hub

... Socratic humility, often associated with great wisdom amongst philosophers and general communities alike. Socrates took a “we know nothing” approach to humility ...

socratic ignorance, intellectual humility and intellectual autonomy

We agree with this but Socrates is not, unlike the skeptic, closed (in principle) to acquiring knowledge, plus, as we shall see, Socrates' ignorance is related ...

Intellectual humility: an old problem in a new psychological ... - NCBI

83), Socrates came to the conclusion, from his research, that “I am wiser than this man; for neither of us really knows anything fine and good, but ...