{"id":433407,"date":"2018-10-05T15:09:13","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T15:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essaypaper.org\/philosophy-explain-the-socratic-riddle\/"},"modified":"2018-10-24T08:52:48","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T08:52:48","slug":"philosophy-explain-the-socratic-riddle-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/philosophy-explain-the-socratic-riddle-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosophy-Explain the \u201cSocratic Riddle\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Explain the \u201cSocratic Riddle\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\nUsing Plato\u2019s Allegory to Explain the \u201cSocratic Riddle\u201d Consider this puzzling statement attributed by Plato to Socrates and paraphrased below: \u201cIf I am the wisest of men, it is only because, whereas other men think know when they do not, I know that I don\u2019t know.\u201d In a short, typewritten paper of about three to five pages, explain for the reader what is puzzling about this statement and what Socrates most probably meant by it. Then, select one incident from Plato\u2019s Allegory of the Cave that best serves to illustrate the meaning of this statement. Take care to acquaint the reader with whatever references you may make in your paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Explain the \u201cSocratic Riddle\u201d Using Plato\u2019s Allegory to Explain the \u201cSocratic Riddle\u201d Consider this puzzling statement attributed by Plato to Socrates and paraphrased below: \u201cIf I am the wisest of men, it is only because, whereas other men think know <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/philosophy-explain-the-socratic-riddle-2\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essay-paper-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}