In 1930, Edith Hamilton penned an extraordinary book entitled The Greek Way. She fills its pages with brilliant observations on the unrivaled contributions to Western culture by the ancient Greeks. Her reflections on Socrates are particularly inspiring.
His own mission, Socrates believed, was to open men's eyes to their ignorance and to lead them on to where they could catch a glimpse of the eternal truth and goodness beneath life's confusions and futilities, when they would inevitably, irresistibly, seek for a fuller and fuller vision of it.
Aristotle says happiness is activity of the soul. That defines precisely Socrates' way of making men happy...So he would sting into activity the souls of men to test their lives, confident that when they found them utterly unsatisfying they would be driven to seek what would satisfy.
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