Socrates : The Defense

Socrates was possibly the most uncomplicated man in all of human history. He was simply what he believed in, with no flair, pomp, or circumstance. In both the physical and mental sense he was exactly who he was proclaiming to be, and nothing else. Socrates was simple in that there were no layers to his personality, no hidden characteristics. You got exactly Socrates, the man who believed only that “I do not think I know …

…he knows. He has decided for himself that he will “neither be wise with their wisdom nor stupid with their stupidity.” Socrates was possibly the only man to ever master the philosophy of simply being who he says he is, and he led a good life, perfectly true to his beliefs. Wisdom is a strange thing, he tells us, in that in order to have it one must quite literally forget that he has it.