A short while ago I was sitting down contemplating how I should fill this page. Should I simply post one of my old term papers on Socrates (pretty much the main inspirations on why I created the site)?-- Or rather, should I try to write something more current to my state of mind, perhaps half-meaningful directed towards this website?...
I suppose the internet has been filled with tens of thousands of different analyses, providing many different perspectives, on the trial of Socrates, his conduct, his method of enquiry, his disciple Plato, and whatever. Adding another drop of water to the vast ocean doesn’t really affect anything. Plus, I guess this site, without all the meta tags, will probably be neglected by the general mass of search engines. So really, this is all here for nothing- much there is here and everywhere, and is to only do about nothing. But yes… even Socrates’ believes that nothing should be examined, and thus is there progress in the evolution of thought.
This is a characteristic for which I admire about Socrates-- being unyielding or even stubbornly perplexed about the nature of everything. Hoping that maybe questioning and observing the small details of his surroundings, he may, in the end, be able to understand and put together the puzzle of existence. In addition to this attitude, Socrates has an incredible ability to gage himself and his own worth, and realizing by accepting one’s ignorance and stupidity comes a lesser degree of ignorance and stupidity, and maybe wisdom. His great fortitude does not simply help in the aspects of enquiry and realizing facts, but aids him in the struggle for the ultimate morality and belief.
He is a man who believes in the extraordinary, in something uncontrollably about the conduct of the universe. He philosophizes that there is something governing the world which is forever outside the understanding of mankind. Although he pretty much spent his whole life investigating the origins of thought, the purpose of existence and the most proper way of living, his disciple Plato did Socrates slight injustice by portraying him as all too sure about the presence of the heavens, the afterlife, and even karma, the incentive to do good. A major portion of Socrates’ teachings is to help others realize that the facts and aspects of ordinary life which may seem definitively clear today may, tomorrow, under proper scrutiny be false. This is not to say human existence is filled with incomprehensible uncertainties or similar at all to Nietzchean nihilism. Socrates can be better associated with the eastern philosophy begun by Siddhartha Gautama who believed that there may be a cure for all these uncertainty factors and the end of discontent and suffering. Overall, both thinkers argue the extreme importance of simply being conscious of who we are and where mankind stands in the major scope.