what was the use of explaining the universe if one remained ignorant of ones own nature? He did not believe that studying eclipses and meteors teaches one how to live. Nothing mattered to Socrates as much as the knowledge of man and the service of man along with man's mastery of the soul. According to Socrates, every man had something to teach him because he carried with in himself the truth about man.
             Socrates believed that we don't perceive the truth by our senses, but that we already possess knowledge of the truth- it is written on our very souls. He believed this innate knowledge that
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