Folks I am Puzzled by a sentence which i cam across in a book. I quote 'Plato retained Socrates' faith in rational inquiry'. All this time what I thought was Faith as a matter of religion or irrational approach. Faith as repose on something empirically unjustifiable and Faith in contradiction or opposite to reason or rationality. but, I could not really get the true essence when somebody have faith in rational inquiry. should I understand Socrates understanding on rational inquiry was conviction rather than back-up by proof. Or am I just creating one hypothetical or non-existing question. :)