#knowledge of ignorance

[falseandrealultravival]

Socrates and midwifery(Essay)

Midwifery: The question and answer method of Socrates. A word that compares the work of a midwife to helping the other party to produce logos through dialogue and examining the logos that has been produced, even though he himself cannot actively produce logos.

Socrates (469 B.C.?-399 B.C.) was a Greek philosopher. He is famous for his ``midwifery'' and ``knowledge of ignorance,'' which are discussed here. Saying “Bad law is also a law," he drank the deadly " poison carrot" and went to death with obedience.

In this case, "logos" means "logic = abstract thinking," and Socrates must have given a kind of shock to those who carried out this act. It must be that the foundation on which they (mainly philosophers) were based was also overthrown by Socrates, whose banners were "midwifery" and "knowledge of ignorance."

As mentioned in the quote, "Midwifery" is such that Socrates (the practitioner) cannot find any logos, but for those who receive it, the past self will break down and see the second birth. Will it have a big impact? I think this will work like a "catalyst" in the chemical terminology of later generations. A substance called a catalyst actually chemically reacts with some substances involved in a chemical change, but returns to its original state after a series of reactions.

And about "knowledge of ignorance", this word is probably the technique of "midwifery" itself. For those who think, "There is nothing I don't know, I am omnipotent," Socrates   peels off the state of knowledge one by one, like peeling an onion. In fact, Socrates led many young people to their second birth by making them understand that it was an unfounded prejudice... However, it is as expected that he remained calm even when Socrates refuted and was sued by people who hated him, and when it was decided that he would be sentenced to death.

[3rdsday]

Tommy basically said "the DSMP was good because it was, and still is, loved" and that basically sums up my feelings on the matter too.

[technically-human]

When the ghost who read to you as you died activates all of your Must Protect instincts

[alexxuun]

Some sort of creature… (ID in alt text)

[philosophybits]

The more one knows, the more one still has to learn. Ignorance increases in the same proportion as knowledge — or rather, not ignorance, but the knowledge of ignorance.

Friedrich Schlegel, Athenaeum Fragments

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

putting my prediction on record now that the coming decade is going to see the rise of viral-marketed fancy at-home water filtration systems, driving and driven by a drastic reduction in the quality of U.S. tap water (given that we are in a 'replacement era' where our current infrastructure is reaching the end of its lifespan--but isn't being replaced). also guessing that by the 2030s access to drinkable tap water will be a mainstream class issue, with low-income & unstably housed people increasingly forced to rely on expensive bottled water when they can't afford the up-front cost of at-home filtration--and with this being portrayed in media as a "moral failing" and short-sighted "choice," rather than a basic failure of our political & economic systems. really hope i'm just being alarmist, but plenty of this already happens in other countries, and the U.S. is in a state of decline, so. here's praying this post ages into irrelevance. timestamped April 2023

[potato-lord-but-not]

i've been dying to see your take on john in a dress (especially since you just debuted your human john <3)

ough he’s so…..

oh also some no context John in a corset bc I need to share the John tibbies

[reality-detective]

The ignorance of Kamala’s voters could contribute to the end of our country. 🤔

[gothhabiba]

I saw this whole long thread of people hand-wringing about "anti-intellectuals" on tiktok and how scary it is that they're believing sourceless claims other people on tiktok tell them, because they claim they have the same chance of being correct as anything that "science says."

and said hand-wringers were waxing poetic about the scientific method and replicability and how everything that's published in an academic journal is guaranteed to be true and correct because of a little thing called peer review whereby scientists (naturally a petty and pedantic people) are encouraged to tear each other's conclusions apart.

and I just have to say. if you believe (in the midst of a major replicability crisis amongst scientific journals, no less) that everything published in a scientific journal is de facto factual or trustworthy, and if you believe that peer review of all things is a process that is guaranteed to prevent papers with anything from flaws in experimental design to full-blown fraud from going to print (as if publishers don't have a literal profit motive to publish studies that yield novel, startling conclusions),

then you are 100% as "anti-intellectual," foolish, & averse to thinking for yourself as the tiktokers you're making fun of. actually I think I like you less. at least their ideas might be bizarre enough to be interesting

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

I hesitate to say pro-lifers have been dropping the ball on this, per se, but it seems to me we could be highlighting the grossly inappropriate hospital miscarriage care (or lack thereof) that has resulted from a pro-abortion culture, and the concerted effort within the medical profession to turn victims of miscarriage into Schroedinger's Baby. "It's only worth grieving over if the mother is grieving, so don't act like grief is the default reaction." Meanwhile, the quietly grieving mother is treated by hospital staff like her highly medicalized miscarriage is a routine procedure, nothing is wrong, no one has died, and she's not a mother.

[chaos0pikachu]

one of my favorite scenes in all of word of honor is episode 14 at exactly the 2min mark where ye baiyi shows up and is like "you're my idiot students idiot stupid idiocity is generational anyway strip my Immortal Daddy sense tells me you ill as fuck" and zhou zishu is like "you want me to STRIP in the middle of the HOTEL LOBBY???" and YBY is like, "god millennials these days" and then they fight and YBY rips a piece of ZZS's undershirt off and the camera pans to it gently fluttering in the wind like it's the last love letter of a jane austen char got from their beloved with news they died in the war as they gaze over the cliffside over the stormy ocean and then BAM Wen KeXing shows up like a jerry springer guest from the side door and is like "UNHAND MY BELOVED THE REASON MY HEART BEATS EACH MORNING WHEN THE SUN RISES" and catches ZZS by his tiny waist to dramatic spin for extra fruit flavor and YBY is like "who the fuck invited this twink?" and then they fight and it explodes a river and shit and ZZS is like "omg you're gonna wake up the whole neighborhood!!" and YBY is like "I'm literally to Daddy to be dealing with this shit just strip so I can diagnose your martial arts cancer" and WKX is like "MY BABY HAS CANCER???" and tries to strip ZZS himself and ZZS is like "what in the fucking 90s shojo manga by Yu Watase Fushigi Yugi shit is this we're in a CLAMP manga stop pulling at my clothes!!!!" and then just to be extra dramatic and Gay (tm) ZZS rips open his own shirt to reveal *gasp* three nipples nails of martial arts cancer and YBY is just like "damn bae you fucked" and WKX has a complete Gay Breakdown

[secretly-a-trekkie]

fruit juice sketches

[foliejpg]

i haven’t seen anyone mention this yet but the pics mikey and joe posted to insta were taken at the same studio

[aliusfrater]

[vlasdygoth]

i've been thinking about a mgs star wars au so obviously this had to happen

[cruelplatonic]

my personal headcanon is the vees were unremarkable nobodies when they were alive. i just love it as a thematic throughline for them. they love to let the public of hell speculate on them being famed and acclaimed since before death, but the the truth is they were a d-list failed influencer that got by on cheap controversey and scamming, a broke junkie who burned every shaky bridge he ever had, and a worn-out broadcast production assistant with more rejected auditions and tossed out script pitches than he could count. nobody missed them when they were gone, nobody cared who they were until they were dead.