Father of Reasoning

Father of Reasoning

Socrates was a man that was ahead of his time, because the times he live in people did not question anything that was set in place, they just went along with whatever ideas that was already put in place for them. The reason was the people did not possess the education needed to for their own ideas. Socrates was the first person to ever question the many different norms that Greeks believed and enforced. Reasoning is when people question things that are around them, by asking how, when, who, when and where. The system of the Greeks were that of a god belief, not that they believed that they themselves were god like, but they did not believe humans were capable of achieving anything but, they only believed that all things are done by the gods and humans are not wise enough to do great works, and I believe these ideas arrived from the lack of education and as well the priests, this was a form of brain wash.
Socrates never formally wrote anything or had a formal school, that is because he believed that knowledge is interactive and a living force. This means knowledge grows because life is ongoing and there are new things to experience and we must remain open minded to absorb every change that life has to offer, know never stays the same. The hierarchy in the Greek city of Athens accused Socrates of corrupting the minds of the youths of Greece; according to his accusers he was introducing new gods to the youths. Socrates was found guilty at the end and was given poison as a form of execution tool, although he could’ve have escape the punishment by not speaking his mind anymore, he chose to drink the poison to prove a point, Socrates became the first martyr for education.
Elenchus is a questioning method; this method was created by the philosopher Socrates. The saying a wise men recognized that he knows nothing at all. This means that we’ll never know everything about everything in the world, therefore we must continue to be skeptical and not accepting everything that is presented t us.
Socrates believed that knowledge is the key to happiness. When a person has great reasoning skills that individual has a better understanding about what they truly want.
They influential part Socrates has over the today’s educational system is that so much have on the old ideas. Human curiosity has been credited too much of the technological advancements in the word. We are thought the old ideas in as we get older we start to question the validity of the old findings and then we start to experiment different ways.