In this process, the intellect is the “divine faculty by which the human soul could discover both its own essence and the world’s meaning.”24 Socrates saw himself as a gadfly. A gadfly bites, provokes, and annoys livestock; this is what Socrates did with his questions and critiques in an attempt to unsettle people in their false sense of security and push them toward universal truth. Gadflies are a major nuisance—and we all know what one wants to do to an annoying gadfly! Indeed, Socrates made many