#Socrates says #curious things#

By Dr. Sohail Ansari

Conceived and worded by DR Sohail Ansari (originality of concepts and originality of words).

He believes that there can never be a zero scope for improvement and appreciates criticism if it is not for the sake of criticism.

·        ‘Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives’

#Socrates says #curious things#

·        Socrates said in Plato’s Republic: ‘It is curious that one would not entrust the work of making shoes to one who has not spent a good part of his life in acquiring this skill, but legislation and political decisions are considered to be safe in the hands of those who do not know the elements of statecraft and are devoid of the knowledge of human nature and human destiny’. If Socrates is right then everybody must do that work that he knows or in other word he has learnt how to do it. Bright children will learn the subject of law, psychology and sociology in universities to be politicians; and only studious type then can be politicians.

Politicians are extrovert; they learn about people from people (they learn from people their problems so that they can solve them); they can tap the technocrats for the legislation of laws and as they are by people so they are fully alive to the needs of people, and as they are for people they ensure on the one hand, that legislation reflect general aspiration, and on the other hand, it is executed in its true spirit. I wonder what Socrates may say about the supervisor of a factory because supervisor only needs to be good to ensure that skills and energies of labor are properly channeled.