Socrates Reasoning About Nihilism

Socrates reasoning about nihilism

Introduction

It has been treated about knowledge in relation to virtue, good, justice, and the other concepts mentioned above, but it is here that you should reflect a bit about this, if you are aware of the acts of each one, inOccasions are acting to your own convenience regardless of how affected the other was, or as evidenced in our country with the constant violence faced since several years ago.

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It is very logical to distinguish that an evil is being done in general, therefore, from my opinion, I do not seem adequate to say that "man is bad why he does not know", since it is something that can be interpreted as much as misunderstanding ofSeveral ways. It is appropriate now to ask ourselves, what kind of knowledge did Socrates mean? Based on Dr. Eudoro Terrones Negrete, (Professor of Philosophy), he writes the following in his Blog of Compilation of Journalistic and Research Articles by Eudoro Terrones.

In a post about Socrates and the theory of knowledge, he writes the following: authentic knowledge was not for Socrates the theoretical or pure knowledge, but practical knowledge (techne), useful knowledge for man. Socrates considered the human wisdom in its relative sense, as long as man has to go gradually discovering it as he advances in his permanent search until he finds it and accumulate increasing number of knowledge, (Negrete).

 At this point, the discussion then becomes the following;For Socrates, practical knowledge is more important, that is, the one that is based on knowledge, to do, since the theorist is not enough to achieve good.

After making clear the first point to be treated, we will proceed with Western nihilism. To thoroughly understand this important concept necessary to know what is Western nihilism? The word nihilism comes from the Latin "nihil", which means "nothing", relating it to the lack of meaning and the lack of goal. 

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According to philosophy;It is the dismissal of supreme values, related to pessimism and without some positive ideal. According to the philosopher Nietzsche (in which its most relevant meaning is acquired, therefore, this point will be based on its reason) nihilism is the dismissal of values made by the western man. But what does Nietzsche mean with "values"?, Nietzsche mainly refers to God, good, the true, among others, because he hated that the world had measured through categories that made it fictional (this is attributed to the higher values), and this related it to thisMetaphysics (fictitious categories). 

"A nihilista is someone who prefers to believe in nothingness not to believe in anything". From the previous phrase raised by the philosopher Nietzsche, I infer the following: For the previously addressed author, it is essential to reason before expressing a belief, since taking into account his statement, it is consistent that a person says to believe in nihilism, that is,, in nothingness, on the contrary it lacks arguments to express not believe in anything, because at the same time, the statement of believing in something of what is not even known is not even known.