What Socrates' 'Know Nothing' Wisdom Can Teach a Polarized America
This is to say that political actors routinely fail to understand themselves and their political opponents as making fallible knowledge-claims — fallible knowledge-claims about who won the election, for example, falli-ble knowledge-claims claims about the effects of climate change, fallible knowledge-claims about the existence of systemic raci... See more
Just a moment...
In a world full of people who seem to know everything, passionately, based on little (often slanted) information, where certainty is often mistaken for power, what a relief it is to be in the company of someone confident enough to stay unsure (that is, perpetually curious).
Maria Popova • How to Love the World More: George Saunders on the Courage of Uncertainty
Socrates had said something about ignorance: All I know is that I know nothing.