Plato, Socrates and Xenophon

Xenophon agrees with plato that socrates did indeed teach that knowledge is the most portant thing in life. But he gives us a very different socrates from the one we find in plato, as we'll see next time. In plato, socrates makes a big deal of proclaiming his own ignorance. He tells the jury at his trial that the oracle at delphi proclaimed him to be the wisest and most free of men. It simply confirms socrates knew all along, which is that he is the most virtuous man walking the earth.