![]() His response to the formal charges may not be the best one he could have made. On trial for his life, Socrates neither argues fallaciously nor evades the real charges or their real basis nor intentionally provokes the jury. Rather he is - like Cassandra, that other misunderstood servant of Apollo - someone it has proved very difficult to take at his word. There is, therefore, no fundamental irony in Socrates. Phaedra, Hippolytus, by Eurpides, lines 421-423, translated by David Kovacs, Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1995, pp.164-165, translation modified. ![]() Thomas Jefferson, letter to Thomas Jefferson Randolph (Jefferson's grandson), November 24, 1808. It was one of the rules which, above all others, made Doctor Franklin the most amiable of men in society, "never to contradict anybody." If he was urged to announce an opinion, he did it rather by asking questions, as if for information, or by suggesting doubts. ![]() And when you do not know that is wisdom."Ĭonfucius, Analects II:17, translation after James Legge, Arthur Waley, D.C. ![]()
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