This paper is to show how Socrates would answer four of the nine fundamental questions of worldview based off readings and lectures of Socrates. The Last Days of Socrates translated by Hugh Tredennick is used to give a better understanding of why Socrates would answer these questions this way. The four questions answered in this paper are morality, condition, knowledge, and happiness. These four questions and the answers he would give will give a basic understanding of Socrates’s worldview and how he sees the world through his eyes.

Morality

Socrates had high moral principles and he held others to those principles as well. Morality asks the question of “Who is the ideal person?” Socrates may not have an ideal person he could think of that …show more content…
If he was asked “What is required for knowledge?” I believe he would answer with three easy terms. Belief, truth, and justification would be Socrates’ type of answer to that question. Being knowledgeable does not mean you know all. Socrates knew he did not know everything and was never ignorant about how much he did know. We talked about in class about how human beings do not like their ignorance exposed, but Socrates did that. He did not feel shameful when he pointed out how most of the politicians he asked about wisdom were not knowledgeable at all. Socrates stated about the man “...and in conversation with him I formed the impression that although in many people’s opinion, and especially in his own, he appeared to be wise, in fact he was not. Then when I began to try to show him that he only thought he was wise and was not really so, my efforts were resented both by him and by many of the other people present” (Tredennick 44-45). Socrates knew being knowledgeable of a subject is having a belief behind the motive in it, stating the truth of the subject, and being able to justify the subject. He knew men did not know all. But if they had faith behind the facts and justification, they may be knowledgeable of that subject and had an open mind for others to give opinions. He had enough wisdom to know that his beliefs were right for him, but not for