Drinking Hemlock and Other Nutritional Matters In “Drinking Hemlock and Other Nutritional Matters”, Harold Morowitz raises radical questions about how we know what we know and emphasizes the need for careful inquiry. Mr. Morowitz is strongly convinced that by incorporating the basics of epistemology (or the theory of knowledge) into our children’s schooling, they would be much better suited to survive in the harsh real world. His title alludes to the punishment of Socrates, the first propounder of the Theory of Knowledge. Morowitz begins his short piece with a tale of a commercial he witnesses. He starts off cynically by stating; “…after rising early I thought it appropriate to turn on the television and communicate, unidirectionally to be sure, with the outside world” (2). Here he hints at the fact that a television....

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