First of all, despite Shakespeare, We don't know what we are, but we know what we may be.To come now to our subject, at that point, Socratic irony was defined not just as the use of irony in conversation but also as an entire personality.
Plato’s Socrates was a character who was other than any determined or expressed position; Socrates’ genius was intimated rather than represented. Aristotle’s ironist was, like Plato’s Socrates, one who played down or concealed his virtues and intelligence (Aristotle 1934 [Nicomachean Ethics 4.7.3-5], 241). Aristotle regarded such an ironic personality as neither pernicious nor ideal. Irony was not a vice but it was far from being a virtue. The truly virtuous citizen would be neither boastful, nor ironic, but sincere in his self-presentation.
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