Who is wise, Socrates? said a man, dressed in expensive clothes.
Those in positions of authority or those who are declared to be wise? Who
is wise, Socrates? Those whose words and names are enshrined in sacred texts?
Or those honoured by tradition?
Socrates considered the question and then he said:
The one who knows one’s own ignorance, and makes no pretence, and spares
no effort to reduce one’s ignorance, that one I consider wise.
- from Socrates Speaks by Raj Arumugam
This book is the first in the TTSlife series of 5 books which aims to put
in the hands of readers the enduring strength and wisdom of our world inheritance
of ideas. The ideas are explored within the framework of imagined events involving
5 historical personages: Socrates; Alexander the Great; Spartacus; Napoleon
Bonaparte; and Lao Tzu.
The titles of the 5 books, all by Raj Arumugam, are:
Socrates Speaks; Alexander son of Olympias; Spartacus Unchained; Laure Writes
to Napoleon; and Lao Tzu.