Socrates Was In Fact Wise About God

Socrates was in fact wise about God in his life and death as a philosopher in the classical Athens time period. To fully show he was wise about God, one must investigate what wisdom and who God is, and use textual evidence, or dialogues of Socrates, to prove his wisdom of God.
In order to show that Socrates was in fact wise about God, one must first define what wisdom itself is. An English word with the stem word, weid, wid meaning “to see” (Mohr, p. 4). It can be defined as a type of knowledge. For someone to posses knowledge one must see a subject and an object. A subject can also be called the knower and an object can be referred to as the thing that the knower, knows. Both the subject and object are connected by means of an idea. An idea
So in order to possess wisdom of something, communication must be fully understood. Communication has the definition of different things that have something in common that allow them to be called by the same name. This strikes a similar definition to that of an idea. Therefore we can say that someone who communicates expresses ideas. The etymology of communication also helps fully express what it means to communicate. From the Indo- European etymology, “ko” meaning “together” and “moin” meaning “exchange”. This etymology infers that a “sharing” of ideas must occur in order to effectively communicate (Mohr, p. 4).
While Socrates can be seen communicating through the act of questioning, he attains his wisdom through a “union” of one’s “consciousness” with that of God and others which fits the definition of Socratic wisdom. Socrates believed that to be wise, one must question everything around them including themselves. Socrates questioned poets, politicians, and craftsmen and discovered that that true wisdom is that questioning with a union of one’s consciousness with that of God (Mohr, p. 39). Because he has this consciousness of God and is able to communicate with God, he must be wise about
The cave in this analogy can be a representation of the material world. The prisoners only knew of what they saw which was a sensible reality in the material world. It was not until the one prisoner left that he realized what reality truly was. The source of this reality is sharing. The sun is a symbol of the ultimate reality. In Socrates’ case, the ultimate reality is called the idea of the good, as seen in the Republic. Both the sun and the idea of the good are all powerful and a source of life. Like the sun gives life to things out of the cave on earth, all knowledge comes from the ultimate reality. Like the sun, without the ultimate reality there can be no existence or awareness. Although the sun can not be the ultimate reality as it is limited and the idea of the good is not. All of the ideas in this story are copies of the idea of the good. Socrates again shows his wisdom of God by showing that his ultimate reality is God or