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... wisdom. Chairephon, a friend from his youth, went to Delphi and asked the oracle if there was any man wiser than Socrates. The answer ...
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... at one time and ventured to ask the oracle...he asked if any man was wiser than I, and the Pythian replied that no one was wiser..." 21b The oracle speaks in ...
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... The Oracle claimed that no one was wiser than Socrates was. However, Socrates believed that he was not wise at all, so he set out to disprove the prophecy. ...
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... the oracle at Delphi and asked if any man was wiser than Socrates. The oracle's response was that no man was wiser that Socrates. ...
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... He declares to the audience that his friend, Chairephon, went to the oracle and asked if anyone was wiser than Socrates. The oracle simply replied no. ...
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... Socrates practiced inquiry throughout his entire life. He started this practice when an oracle of Apollo told him that no one was wiser than he("Apology" 215). ...
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... He clarifies this report to the jury by quoting the exact words of the oracle as he has heard them. "No one is wiser than you" (Apology 21a). ...
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One main goal everyday for Socrates was to determine wheter or not what the oracle said was true. ... He wanted to see if no one was wiser! ...
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... There is a story told, that one day, his friend, Chaerephon, asked an Oracle in Delphi whether or not there was someone wiser than Socrates. ...
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... The Oracle said he was. ... His mission was to find someone wiser than himself, but soon he realized that he was in a way wiser than the Sophists, who were ...
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... All Socrates is saying in this quote is, he is wiser than Melutes, although ... but I thought that I must attach the greatest importance to the God's oracle, so I ...
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... He then proceeds through a series of ironic descriptions of his efforts to disprove the oracle by conversing with notable Athenians who must surely be wiser. ...
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... One of Socrates childhood friends asked Apollo's oracle if there was in the whole world a man wiser than Socrates. "There is not", replied the god. ...
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... This began with Chaerophon's trip to the Oracle at Delphi and conclusion the Pythian priestess gave that no one was wiser than Socrates. ...
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... I am quite conscious of my ignorance At any rate, it seems that I am wiser..I do ... Therefore, Socrates goes on a quest of sorts to see if this oracle is true. ...
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... instead of an "all knowing being." The reader finds that he was wiser, and had a ... should not have fled with hasty steps upon hearing the words of the oracle. ...
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... that he outwitted his fate and negated the prophecy of the Oracle of Delphi. ... Also towards the end a wiser Oedipus accepts fate's most dreaded force, death, a ...
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... He explains that it is his duty to search for one wiser than he, claiming that ... Socrates says that his mission in life is to prove the oracle wrong, and prove ...
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... Genius alone is not enough; or perhaps it were wiser to say that we recognize ... When Creon returns from the Oracle at Delphi, he announces to the people that ...
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... please. 9. The oracle at Delphi Which honors the GOD Apollo himself told me that no one in Athens is wiser then Socrates. Yet Socrates ...
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... Genius alone is not enough; or perhaps it were wiser to say that we recognize ... When Creon returns from the Oracle at Delphi, he announces to the people that ...
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... the incest motif of Sophocles' Oedipus the King extends beyond the oracle's predictions and ... support him no matter what: "I am the senior and the wiser in these ...
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... He tells Oedipus that he has brought news from the oracle and suggests that Oedipus hear ... Creon, in the end, emerges as a wiser man who has learnt much from the ...
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... precedent for which he has abided through out his entire search, to disprove the oracle. ... if I (Socrates) could only find a man wiser than myself, then I might ...
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