Sorenson or Socrates?

While reading Plato, I felt as though I was sitting in Olin 205 just having one of our usual discussions. In CIE we are taught to ask why and look into our minds to find a more significant, deeper mean to the world around us, and in Plato Socrates is constantly asking why and attempting to gain knowledge of the world surrounding him. Socrates main concern with life was what knowledge he gained and the strides he made in making sense of the insensible. He wanted to learn, he wanted to enrich his mind and that was all he wanted.
While talking to Euthyphro Socrates was constantly asking him to explain his reasoning or expand on a concept that Euthyphro had mentioned. (Dr Sorenson anyone?) Socrates did not care about making an everlasting name for himself or what physical feats he could accomplish, he cared about expanding his knowledge and using it to help others. He proves this by questioning many things such as what is pious and impious and why Euthyphro would have a lawsuit against his own father. Some may say that as a philosopher it was his job to question and learn which is true, but it is his passion and need to do these things that make it his main concern in life. He had set out to learn all he could about the world and he wasn’t going to rest until he got his answers and by questioning, perception, and persistence he became one of the best philosophers known to man.