Sentences with phrase «socratic ignorance»

She wrote for the publishing and ideas blog Socratic Ignorance Is Bliss, and has had short stories published around the place.

What an innumerable number have felt the need of going further than the Socratic ignorance — presumably because they felt that it was impossible for them to stay there; for in every generation how many men are there that are capable, even for only a month, of enduring and existentially expressing ignorance about everything?

Every determination of his nature which makes the God immediately knowable is indeed a milestone on the way of approximation, but one which marks an increase instead of a decrease in the distance; it does not measure toward the Paradox but away from it, back past Socrates and the Socratic ignorance.

Let us here again recall Socrates, for what was the Socratic ignorance if not an expression for his love of the learner, and for his sense of equality with him?

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In the end it seems that Girard's doctrine of sin is essentially Socratic: sin is ignorance, unconsciousness of the scapegoat mechanism.

Even to make the well - known Somatic distinction between what one understands and what one does not understand, passion is required, and of course even more to make the characteristic Socratic movement, the movement, namely, of ignorance.

This spirit has been suffocated by the Socratic presumption that «virtue is knowledge; man sins only from ignorance; he who is virtuous is happy,» and Nietzsche indicts his age for «that Socratism which is bent on the destruction of myth.