"tin" "can" "we might want want to wear the v_ chip greek civilization still has anything to say to us travel around athens today and you see that the martin sitting names much larger than the traces of its power and yet" "just as we get the old glimpse of old buildings sixty it sometimes possible to capture him to be ideas the ancient greeks have given us almost two thousand five hundred years ago a philosopher was born here his name was socrates" "and he's come to symbolize one philosophies most inspiring gets to the rest of us the thinking logically about our lives might help us to be more certain of ourselves more independent s conformist less hamstrung by what of the people think" "it's the dream that philosophy might such as free i've come to refuse to see how a man who famously donate for his beliefs might give us the confidence to stand up for all byron socrates read nothing down" "and we know what he sent chiefly through a series of dialogue see features in written by his pupils later we're not even sure that this strange little statues of him we know he was born in four six nine bc and was married to a famous kisha rich" "woman calls and vp when asked why he maritime he replied the horse trainer had to practice in the most spirited animals there is one factor that into stands out among or incheon philosophers these perhaps the greatest and there's no" "clear evidence of this fact matches the only philosopher readily available as a fridge magnet the magnet suggest another factor that socrates that he was extraordinarily quickly in history of the subjects with many notably ugly practitioners he was shortly the artist" "here is very good friends compared him stingray sincerely cortes compounded his looks films never washing ready changing his clothes middleware and sandals who said that he'd been born in order to spike shoemakers socrates is your secret it happens" "quicker way to one of his most inspiring ideas but we should find ways to build confidence not there in terms and not be to swing depends upon for the start the recruits similarities between humans and cheap we may not have a woman on pacs limit buying sounds who we often have emerged" "from a life of the creatures passively and have a hard breaking away from the group point to the following sheepishly behind other people particularly important all the people marci because we mention they must know what they're talking about concern" "crucial behind until nineteen ninety eight andrew miller was a loyal employees at this company british biotech in oxford when he was director of clinical research but he began to think that is employers will be over optimistic about the drugs" "they were developing but the shareholders want getting an accurate picture he was forced to confront antagonizing question could it would it be possible that he was right even though or eleven members biotech aboard were against him what what does it feel like to be" "one man uh... thinking that something you're saying is right an eleven other people saying no you won't u well it's so frustrating situation at some units tariff lines won't like it if it will uh... i don't say terrifying but it is" "pre occupied but it does still chesley and u to you made your mind toes start to play tricks on me good unit to make it out to sanity to certain extent because evils trees experience debited two boxes overall it at the majority" "tends to have a certain amount of right on the side and to those who always has a bollywood said lace to sit in my office touching but of course thinking how i got this wrong unit allen misinterpreting these things" "that the saltzman technology kabbah force of the scope of cases diffusing birthrates whether they were trying to send it well angle he stopped us your insanity thick black glasses why do i think this elise eleven guys from the board" "think differently tell me about the pressure to conform to the company uk british biotech well i think it'll companies that pressures to conform the cultures and all contents people he like when are you working with when she what you want to do is to" "even appease them that your bosses you are wanting to appease them you only to help them you are willing to work with them he will be friends with them i did not circle relations with that woman little ones the first recent why it's hard to feel confident in andrew situation" "is that we tend to accept people in authority must be right they european community has said this because i think they say because the system trimmed its opportunites wanted us to chairman but used to think a logic lee about the nonsense that often come out with" "rather than being struck dumb by the or if importance and arif swap certainty right because i think outside opened and twisted journalism of our country with a simple sort of truth on the trust issue of a traditional british play" "soviet in deciding when to follow prominent people and when to disagree with them socrates had one huge advantage over us he could always talk to them in person athens in his stag had a population of just a hundred and fifty thousand" "and all the citizens came here to the anchorage the main marketing meeting place of athens if you visited in the fifth century b_c_ you'll be lucky to see amongst the bustle of the city rather curious puppy figure" "because for most of his adult life socrates cause of a dormant and came to spend the day amongst the shopkeepers and merchants who have been stalls here it wasn't just local people who came uh... to this post was also the most important people anything in society so" "that you could meet eric any point in the day probably visit with the opinion formers the great military generals the great statesman important richard tissues be aristocrats they could all be found here and what socrates did rather than just widely chatting to people he would go up" "to these very important people an austin great questions on life you basically osman to explain why they were giving the kind of life that would be doing and what happened is that he found there was surprising inadequacies in their" "understanding of the way of life they weren't eating so that wealthy people couldn't explain why they have money in office didn't military generals couldn't explain why they fought battles in a certain way but i think we take away" "from this fascinating lessons if you have the lock but once the courage to go up to fourteen people and question the way that they are beating their lives you might be able to find surprising inadequacies which they're very" "into that to me make it absolutely no indication the second recently has staked a challenge of the people is that we all know in our common moments how easy it is to make trouble for the wrong reasons because we can pick a date to nineteen ninety" "socrates was a non conformist and he made trouble for seniors but he wasn't motivated by our completion that everyone should do things his way nor by the kind of willful eccentricity we might think off when we hear that you went around barefoot in washes clerk" "what makes his nonconformity valuable is that it was motivated by the desire to find truth challenge lazy assumptions rather than the wish to make trouble government so we can walk down the main streets in the marketplace fans and talk" "to people much questions about meaning of life anyway very fascinating thing to do so very irritating spend at least tend to react with liberation justices a good idea" "making sure that everyone gets qualify efficiencies going off to people in asking them to explain their beliefs is pretty scary if you were told shall like me people look at you strangely they mentioned that if you ask him to explain" "why they're living in a certain way but you know the answer and when someone claiming a position of superiority over them" "that's the problem pressures supposedly a special commission cities for a very low socratic test so pretty stagnant such inhibitions he preferred to be thought of it so for intense and we use than allow his fellow citizens to continue to muddle along on thinking" "he wanted all of us to scrutinize what we believed even on our way into the shops dispels id since you can probably mansion socrates annoyed and most of the scenes in this way but at the heart of his approach is an extremely gamma terrain idea" "that everyone has the duty to reflect on my life and real all surprisingly capable of doing so um... vob fairbanks we not often expected to explain why we have the way we do socrates our sister of a common laziness intimidating" "to work out what we really think and stand by it once we have etc yet playing at celluloid right and its philosophy in his hands is an invitation opened russell's too intelligent nonconformity it" "subroutines doesn't just give us the confidence to challenge for from united on the cheese beliefs and traditions well wholesome office is soaring developments of heartburn which can help us to strike out from crime and the way to do so" "through rigorous test which he defines if our opinions conservancy proteases test and they will truly worth standing offer the reason why there are a lot of willie or at least imprecise ideas out there in the world that many people imagine they can come up with a good idea" "without thinking tumhara patterns socrates thought this was crazy and to bring up the insanity of disposition compared thinking to putting and no one would imagine that you could make a good cause that at least following departing recourse steps yet many people imagine you could come up for the pacific elective" "here how to live your life thinking too hard about it socrates went further and his analogy yes she came out with a distinct method socratic method of fort identified five distinct steps which anyone who wants to come up with a good" "in which to do so times these thoughts from roughly be summarized as follows look around you for statements that many people would describe as plain common sense for example for the best jobs that those which are most highly pains" "well that happiness comes from being married certainly try to find an exception to this could you ever the american yet unhappy or could have been a very well take over yet miserable is an exception to this day is found" "it must be middle statement is false or at least imprecise and in this case we find that there is an interesting nuance the initial statement to take the exception into account so in our example realize that it is possible to be quite unhappy that very" "highly-paid job it's completely creativity on fulfilling or to be quite miserable in a marriage if you've married the wrong person you continue this process for as long as possible you keep trying to find exceptions to your common sense statements until she" "says the truth insofar as anyone ever able to reach the truth lies in a statement which it seems impossible to disprove if we just are communes in this way socrates believed will be able to construct trust with the and watertight thoughts and just the" "same way as a skilled potter x trustworthy and watertight pots" "the point of socrates is method is it it makes your father's passing less inclined to follow that the other cheek if other people disagree we don't just have to say limping petulant lee well i think i'm right but i can't tell you why" "will be able to demonstrate logically why we believe things panic others ignore the logic then that opposition went after one of the same time martha's imagine that we copy philosophers because we haven't studied philosophy we havent read enough we have gone to school long enough wimberly" "university degree but i think what i find extremely inspiring in socrates is the idea that everyone config noticeably one campaign but everyone has a responsibility to think defense because it the unexamined life is not worth living so could you send me to the idea of an examined like seemed far from for" "beating socrates suggests that we can have an interesting philosophical conversation anyway even on a street corner philosophy mean just happened behind the walls of the university when schoolroom socrates used to talk to an extraordinary range of people and want" "to demonstrate to think that they will all cable to arrive well-thought-out opinions it's inspiring idea in all martin democratic societies with focus groups and opinion pollsters rule socrates would've thought that all problem is that we tend to listen to" "opinions whether they're well thought out or not side was so critics believe but we will be all in theory capable of living in examined life he knew that in practice most of us don't and this meant that he couldn't accept spit every opinion was equally worth listening to" "him anymore and every poll twist equally capable of holding water strange as it may sound too morton is and even though he lived in the very cradle of democracy socrates at the grave us reservations about democracy because he refused to accept the just because the majority supported in" "opinion that major right company to forty ridiculous the people in positions of power might be guided by focus groups like pics stick most important decisions ancient athens were taken according to the will of the majority once a month the whole citizen" "body would be osteopathic for two people place and talk about all the important issues facing our sins and we find exactly the same approach going on today emoted government and business polling organizations rob like this one cava groups of people an awesome what they think and then important decisions taken" "according to the with the majority i think socrates with disagreed finally with what's going on and that he was objected not just a bit that call think but also to the home approach that with majority should decide an issue in his eyes" "matches his weapon on human is logical is reasonable facts the way we should make decisions not recording the will of the man charged believing that the majority can be wrong and being sure when you are right still doesn't make it easier to hold a minority opinion particularly when you" "likelihood said state what most people so what gave andrew miller the confidence to stand up against his employers even though it was to lead him into a bitter battle in the media and the local sia uh... you can only see the" "world's with relatives you can't writes a understand what other people think and sometimes you can't do that there are different times when someone has some strong views that are quite different from those you respect to the basis for" "uh... but that's different from being yet i think we can accommodate a lot of differing views that but from weapon if you devoted to see things for the wrong i do find it very frustrating socrates died for his beliefs how far were you prepared to care for you with" "us but it was a bit different symbian individual your family and once i was put into the media wall simplification i was aware of that i was at war that i have left but leslie of my wife a partial" "until i really have a choice of a started to realize anyway i was full it's and uh... answer you know we have sort of photographs together visitation it could have destroyed me was a victory difficult destroyed me uh... was officially prepared" "fathers just how far it finished up the inet funding fundamentally yeltsin self alleged sink alot to their in the morning of the show it it at the least uh... i think of that too politically culture started with the situation" "andrew feels that he's been vindicated by the out of court settlement he received from his employers socrates was not so fortunate the one factor people tend to remember about socrates is that he faced a trial and he was condemned to death" "this is remained a very potent image so that if you walk around the streets of athens today you can still see the scene represented all over the place and that's because has become an immensely powerful symbol someone standing out courageously and intelligently against the will the" "majority the charge against socrates was having corrupted the youth of athens and failing to respect the colts the city worshipped the potential penalty was death one march morning socrates was also show up at the courthouse in athens and terms of what is was facing probably to a five hundred" "opinion citizens and what we do know is that the other spare inside the courtroom was resident hostile towards the parties from the very beginning is suspicious of this man many conferred had been questioned by him before they were not on his signs" "sasaki was really facing the possibility that he would die and yet he didn't lose his nerve" "and socrates said if i was a lot more time to make my case to you d receipient i'm sure i could convince you that justice of michael's but icons and he accepted this critically sickly when the final vote came to be taken" "of the majority of the jury decided he was guilty and he should be sent it back socrates was laid off from the courtroom to the prison just a few yards warning his wife's and they came to visit him" "but she broke down so hysterically that you have to be led away many of his friends who also intends even the prison water we've seen many carter that deaths offered his apologies and second of all the people who would ever come through the child" "subroutines was the noblest the most generous and one sister and a few moments later the execution of came through the door with a cup of hemlock it's a pretty swiss given the card announced a tree and after a few moments his legs began to feel happy" "uh... slowly the paralysis calls by becoming the paralyzing agent in hemlock but looking through his body and uh... within a few minutes his whole body was paralyzed his friendfeed to reach forward and shut his eyes" "in athens today there's very little glory that was anxious greece and that is inspired the world that person's and yet the ideas of socrates live on he was once asked where he came from and he replied not from athens" "and he remains in many ways the political philosopher born in athens but speaking his message to the home of humanity of course very few of us will be called upon to die for our beliefs but socrates makes a scene" "week all have the capacity to stop following opinions passively and instead to develop beliefs we can't truly have confidence in though with often reluctant to see it all of us can make the transition from being chic to being thinking person" "faxes"