Oedipus The King

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in Plato's several works, or Plato's student Aristotle. These notions were being circulated throughout Greece during the time period which Oedipus was thought to be presented, making them common knowledge for the audience of the time (Friedlander 7).
Of all the virtues that the Greeks, especially the Athenians held dear was wisdom, wisdom dealing with everything in life (Friedlander 8). Socrates spurned this Greek movement for wisdom when he not only proclaimed that wisdom is the one true virtue from which all other
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virtues originated, but he also put forth the notorious quote, "The unexamined life is not worth living."("Apology" 203) . Socrates throughout all of Plato's dialogues, advocated the importance of the wisdom and said that the desire for this wisdom is the only true path to divinity. Aristotle later contributed to the theory when he wrote in his Nicomachean Ethics, that wisdom separated mankind from the animals and wisdom placed the Greeks closer to the ...

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objects in their veritable conformations and give them their appropriate judgement and value(74). This theory is the basis for what Socrates in Plato's Protagoras avouched his concept of "The Art of Measurement."("Prot."163). Socrates holds that since the world is in a cave, the
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people cannot trust their judgement or perceptions because they are only of false shadows. Socrates proffered this theory in response to Protagoras' question of why mankind commits acts that are ultimately harmful, such as smoking or excessive drinking(165). Aristotle believed that this was because of a weak moral habit("N.E." 411). However, Socrates did not believe in Aristotle's famous Akrasia ...

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