Mixing Memory on the Socrates principle

http://mixingmemory.blogs...th-of-mind.html

Mixing memory referring in his ever so learned way to what i more simply call the Socrates principle:

on Mixing Memory

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. -Socrates

Problem with most of Socrates work is that he is actually Plato's parrot. Plato, the arch, um..  Platonist believed in a true and perfect world that existed outside the cave and that we might get to know it. It lead him to all sorts of idiotic and dogmatic assertions especially in the social realm. The original and the best Socrates was another man entirely altogether more aware of his own limitations and the complexity of the world. And whilst I don't doubt that some of our modern knowledge is true in some sense, i think that Socrates' insight is as important as it ever was; Wisdom and knowledge are not the same thing. And ignorance isn't necessarily shameful.