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Socrates: Man and Myth

Philosophy Now

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I'm Not Going to Have Anything to Do With Anything, Right?

The structure of value is completely different from the way that we commonly understand it. Nothing will be good for you unless you are good, he says. Socrates has got a different priority perhaps. He's talking about getting beyond the physical world to something mental or spiritual. And in the light of the sun, you see all the beautiful world around you and eventually you look at the sun itself.

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