There is nothing wrong with Oedipus committing into searching who killed the
King Laius. Oedipus behave as the king and it was the best thing to do to show his
authority to his population. As story goes, the purpose to search the murder changes.
Oedipus ignoring each advises that warn him about risk to know the truth have gradually
become selfish. At the end, everything is uncovered, letting Oedipus be ruined. The
problem is the King losing his publicity and being so selfish.
I assume that the author Sophocles attempted to describe the essence of
philosophy by providing the symbolized character seeking the truth as philosophers do.
What the philosophers study about is to define us human being because philosophers
always mention that destination of study is nothing but studying ourselves. As Oedipus
change the purpose of an investigation to find the murders toward to find own birth, any
study categorized into philosophy will finally reach to ego's advantage. Sophocles
referred to how silly people behave when he lacks publicity and be such selfish. In Greek
world, religions was directly related to morality of people. Sophocles was afraid of
people who are too involved in philosophy losing morality or publicity and eventually
individualistic, which would possibly spoil ancient Greek states.
Oedipus was too involved in philosophy even though he was the king of the state.
Unless the person who was required the enormous publicity could lose the morality by
seeking the own foolish truth, ordinary people may not protect themselves from the
allurement. The conclusion is that Oedip ...