Socratic Teaching

This is a way to divert myself from being productive by writing an entry. I'm putting together an assignment for my history student and I came upon a write-up in regards to why should anyone study history. And the author led to discussing the one of the famous philosopher, Socrates. I'll let you read the paragraph that made me ponder myself:

For Socrates, perhaps the highest virtue can be summed up in the phrase, "Know thyself." In other words, of all the things in the phenomenal world, there is not one so important as yourself. To know yourself means to be aware of what it is that makes you who you are. And in this respect, the one thing which reveals this knowledge is history. But people do not live alone, they live in society. And it is in society that the individual comes into contact with other individuals, all of whom are on the same quest, in varying degrees. So, for Socrates, knowledge of self does not hinge upon reflection or introspection, but conversation, hence the Socratic dialogue.

In that thought, life is a on-going journey that we all take on alone or along with friends and family. We search meaning in what we do and with the people we have or had relationships with. Everyone will always ask the rhetorical question, what is my purpose in this life?

I'm always searching my purpose, my meaning in life and who I truly am...