Part one of term paper
stemmed from his alleged ignorance of knowledge. He claimed that he was wise only because he admitted his lack of scholarship and could come to terms with this idea. Nevertheless, in his own supposed ignorance he wished to prove that others were as ignorant as he but definitely not as wise. His end goal was to prove that the wisest men in At ...

Part two of term paper
... made the other persons point very clear to them (and his audience), he then asked them a series of questions that were designed to make them concede on another point that contradicted the first one. It was through this sequence of questions that Socrates proved that what the other person believed he knew was either false, or that there were other possibilities to consider. He publicly made fools of some of Athens most prominent figures, and for this he was not looked upon very highly by the ...