Mr. Pellegrino was born in a small east coast town, which is unknown to him. He was nurtured during an age of ignorance, when mankind was still suffering the fate of Constantine; the man who changed the destiny of the world but a few hundred years after the great Greek Enlightenment had started to decline. After years of mental exclusion, Mr. Pellegrino began a journey, following in the footsteps of Socrates.

In his poetry and philosophy, Mr. Pellegrino delves within the poignant questions that have plagued the human species since its infancy. However, as any true journey, Mr. Pellegrino follows these questions where truth will lead, regardless of the implications to himself or our species as a whole. The greatest of Human Minds have been led to error by putting their own self worth, and hence destiny, within the equation of true knowledge...

What is the "Socratic Quest"?

The Myth:

A man named Chairephon was informed by the oracle at Delphi that Socrates possessed more wisdom than any man that walked the earth at the time. However, Socrates, The Philosopher, albeit not one to be impious, had doubts about the revelation that the holy oracle had passed forth.Thus, Socrates endeavored a quest to test the veracity of the oracle's statement. He journeyed the land and questioned all the wise men of the ancient world. Socrates thought himself to be quite ignorant and thus he beseeched answers to all of the questions that perplexed his humble mind. However, amazingly, Socrates found that the wisest of Sages could not answer his questions, albeit they made superfluous attempts to maintain their grandiloquent status. Socrates continued his quest for his entire life, unfortunately, his questions were never answered; the masses continued to wallow in their ignorance while being enlightened by pseudo-philosophers and fools that sought and feigned wisdom for power, money, and glory. Moreover, the oracle was most definitely correct: a wise person understands the domain of their ignorance and the limitations of the knowledge they may attain.

The true quest:

Socrates understood that before you can teach something, you must first have a complete understanding of that which you endeavor to teach, and secondly, you have to know if it is teachable. Socrates' quest was to gain an understanding of knowledge itself, and, thus, only with this understanding could he question the possibility of knowledge being used to instruct one in proper conduct. Of course, this would most definitely move into the questions of: what is truth, virtue and vice, what can be known, what is reason, love, hate etc. I believe, Socrates never found the answer to these questions, in part due the progress of science during his era. However, his most loyal and erudite student, Plato, out of love and most humane desperation, answered the Socratic questions with an idealism that far surpassed Christianity (which would subsequently rule the world) in spirituality.

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