Extinction Between Knowledge And Wisdom In The Crucible '

Socrates makes a distinction between knowledge and wisdom. For him, knowledge is worthless, while wisdom is worthwhile. It is evident that the rest of the soldiers weren’t aware of the implant because they had consented to have their memories erased after receiving the implant. Socrates would have told them to question the authority. Socratic ignorance is knowing that you don’t know. It was because of the implant that the soldiers didn’t know that the Roaches were normal human beings. In the scene where Stripe is underground with a Roach is when he realizes that he doesn’t know. The purpose of the Socratic method is pathlessness, which is the ability to choose your own path. Wisdom is eliminating false beliefs and useless information. When

For the soldiers, the implant allows the soldiers to dissociate themselves from the Roaches. If the soldiers didn’t have the implant, it would have been harder to convince them to kill these people that look just like themselves. We must choose good habits and practice them until they are automatic then they become part of our character. In the case of the soldiers, it is because they have gone on killing sprees that it has become a habit to kill these Roaches. They even have a sense of euphoria and triumph when they do so. Aristotle states that pain and pleasure “act as a sign of your state”. In the example of practicing the virtue of bravery, if the agent feels pain, then that person is not brave, s/he isn’t brave until s/he feels pleasure, because it is then that bravery becomes part of their character. Because the soldiers have this sense of euphoria and triumph, this is an indicator that being assassins of roaches have become part of their character. When Stripe realizes that they are killing innocent people he feels confused, not only about what he has been told but about himself. Aristotle then refers to the use of a scale when you want to obtain a virtue, this scale is used to moderate. When using this scale, we should use reason to honestly assess ourselves. Aristotle states that “excess and deficiency ruin a state”. This applies to good

For existentialists, it is cowardly to adapt to existing ideas. They would agree that Stripe's choice to receive the implant again would be a cowardly act, instead of choosing to go against the authority and to form his own meaning about the roaches. Authenticity is being true to yourself, and to base your beliefs on your subjective experience. Stripes choices make him inauthentic, he chooses to live a lie and to erase his experiences of learning that the Roaches weren’t monsters as the implant had made it seem. Authenticity is the opposite of bad faith, hypocrisy, and conformity. Sartre explains the idea of subject/object, this idea is that a person believes to be a subject and assumes that others are subjects as well. Sartre states that we become objects to one another when we interact with one another. This is a result of not having access to other worlds, this then leads to a level of dissociation. This could be the case with the Roaches and the rest of the population because of the prejudices they hold it is impossible for them to understand one another. Simultaneously we are subjects and objects. We have an awareness of being an object to someone else. Sartre believes that split consciousness leads to bad faith. He states that bad faith can be self-deception, and this relates to conformity and inauthenticity. He gives three different examples. The