"The entire Western tradition originated there, in the sense that Socratic doubt is the passive non-acceptance of tradition. His question is why? It is a transcendental question, it is beyond the boundaries, it is not understood by his contemporaries. What he asks of his contemporaries is not within their perspective, within their possibility. Socrates always wants the definition of things “ti esti” and they always respond with myth. But he is not understood, even when he plays on the issue of ignorance “I know that I know nothing,” he actually knows."