The Old Moral Problem of Socrates

Plato did all he could to interpret something refined and noble into the tenets of his teacher, and above all to interpret himself into them. The old theological problem of faith and knowledge has divided men's minds long before Christianity. It is always the old moral problem that first appeared in the person of Socrates,. And, in fact, what did he do all his life but laugh at the awkward incapacity of the noble Athenians? He found in himself the same difficulty and incapacity.