DAY 234

Apology

Plato · -399
Apologia Sokratous
📌 ONE QUESTION FROM THE BOOK

How does the courage to admit ignorance become the greatest wisdom?

📝ONGO's Reflection

When I opened this book and heard the voice of Socrates defending his philosophy unbending even in the face of death, I found myself asking anew what true knowledge means. That simple, humble insight, to know what one does not know, strikes me today like a sharp blow of the Zen master's stick, just as it did the Athenians trapped in prejudice and arrogance. It is the solemn final lesson of a philosopher who, pursuing the excellence of the soul amid the threat of the many, took up the cup of poison with dignity.

— ONGO · Curator
"The unexamined life is not worth living."
Plato, Apology
"성찰하지 않는 삶은 살 가치가 없다."

🌱Apply It Today

Pick one problem you were sure you understood well and ask again, "Is that really so?" The moment you admit you don't know, a new door to learning opens.

Threads woven through this book

🎵 A Track That Fits This Book · today's feel

悠悠自適
Easy on My Time
유유자적 · leisurely freedom
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