Understanding resistance to health education : the nature of ignorance in Socrates’ philosophy
This theoretical article refers to Socrates’ interpretation in order to explain the role that ignorance plays in resistance to health education and how to find solutions to this problem. The objective is to verify the validity of this philosophical approach : its limits and also its modernity. The authors suggest confronting this theory and its practical reality. Using an example, they show that this ignorance is not only a lack of information but rather an inattentiveness to the underlying meaning, so that, although the information has been understood, the reality to which it refers has not necessarily been integrated. This interpretation encourages researchers in health education to pursue further philosophical reflection.