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Sin is Ignorance - Socratic definition of sin
Title: Sin is Ignorance - Socratic definition of sin
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 352 | Pages: 1.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Sin is Ignorance - Socratic definition of sin
Sin is Ignorance - Socratic definition of sin
Sin is ignorance. This is well known Socratic definition of sin which, like everthing Socratic, is an opinion always worthy of attention. The difficulty with the Socratic definition is that it leaves undetermined how ignorance itself is to be more precisely understood, the question of its origin, ect.
That is to say. even if sin be ignorance(or what Christianity would perhaps prefer to call stupidity), which in …showed first 75 words of 352 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 352 total…them for a many a day) the Socratic definition does not deal. Socrates therefore never really gets to the determinant we know as sin, which is surely a defect in a definition of sin. Why is this? For if sin is indeed ignorance, then sin properly does not exist, since sin definitely consciousness. If sin consists in being ignorant of what is right, so that one consequently does what is wrong, sin dos not exist.
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