Ep 164: Knowledge and Ignorance Part4
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The Road Not Yet Built, Brick by Brick
Socrates doubts human knowledge or wisdom and remains firm in his rejection of any pretension to knowledge or wisdom. He concludes that we can know securely, that we can be wise, by distinguishing in the natural light of reason between clear and distinct ideas whose source is God and all the others whose source is our own impure imagination. Poppa goes on quote, Erasmus of Rotterdam attempted to revive this socratic doctrine, the important though unobtrusive doctrine, "know thyself" Yet this doctrine was swept away by the belief that truth is manifest by Luther, Bacon and Descartes.
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