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Socrates


Born
Deme Alopece, Athens
Genre
Philosophy

Influences
Diagoras of Melos, Aristippus ...more


470 BC-399 BC

Indefatigable search of Greek philosopher Socrates for ethical knowledge challenged conventional mores and led to his trial and execution on charges of impiety and corrupting the youth; although he wrote nothing, the dialogues of Plato, his greatest pupil, capture his method of question and answer.

People consider this inscrutable individual enigma in his lifetime of the handful who forever changed conception of thought. They vigorously dispute most of our second-hand information, but his mythic death at the hands of the democracy nevertheless founded the academic discipline, and he influenced in every age. Because they widely consider his paradigmatic life more generally, the admiration and emulation, normally reserved for Jes ...more

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“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
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“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
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“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
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