Comments by "Jackie Wu" (@jwu1950) on "The Ideas of Socrates" video.
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How a man ought to live ? 500 years after Socrates, Jesus gave us the answer : love God with all our heart, with all our mind, and with all our soul, and love one another as Jesus loved us.
With regard to knowledge, Socrates actually said he knew only one thing, and that is he knew nothing. We humans know nothing, period. We live by our beliefs, not our knowledge, for knowledge we have none. We pursue our knowledge of virtue all our lives and we never get it, because we have no knowledge, and because virtue is merely what we believed is virtuous. Virtue, morality, good and evil, is always subjective, transient, and circumstantial. There is no such thing as objective virtue, permanent virtue, or absolute virtue. It's that simple.
With regard to "an unexamined life is not worth living.", it all depends on what you believe "worth" is. If "happiness" is our ultimate goal, our ultimate worth, ignorance is bliss, and is also the most precious. Ignorance is to not pretend we know shit. Knowledge does not bring happiness. It is always our belief that we know we are virtuous that brings great happiness. But are we virtuous ? We don't know. The truth is, we are virtuous during the moments we believed we are virtuous. Those moments are always subjective, transient, and circumstantial, never objective, permanent, or absolute. Detachment is the way to true happiness.
May the love and the peace of Jesus be with us.
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