Hello everyone,

My name is Nathaniel Bonadore, but Nathan works just fine. I'm a science major adding a little critical thought to my otherwise fact-driven curriculum. Hopefully this will only be the first of many philosophy courses I take!

Now, something struck me while reading through chapter one. If, according to Socrates or Greek philosophers in general, one holds a deeper understanding of some ideal they become that ideal, right? So if one truly understands justice they become just, of if I were to truly understand wisdom I therefore become wise. Wouldn't ignorance, or the knowledge that I truly don't understand something, be one of these ideals?

If it is, than I'd argue that Socrates well and truly was ignorant, but that he was also achieving his own arete through his ignorance. Now is that just completely paradoxical, or does it make perfect sense?