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Socrates (c. 470–399 BCE) was a Greek philosopher from Athens. He is credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy and as being the first moral philosopher of the Western ethical tradition of thought. Though he authored no texts, he is known chiefly through the accounts of classical writers composing after his lifetime, particularly by his students Plato and Xenophon.

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Against Persuasion

Philosophers aren’t the only ones who love wisdom. Everyone, philosopher or not, loves her own wisdom: the wisdom she has or takes herself to have. What distinguishes the philosopher is loving the wisdom she doesn’t have.

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Socrates & Plato Now & Then

Plato fell under Socrates’ inspiration. In Plato’s dialogues Socrates quizzes mostly the Athenian aristocracy, but others too, on their understanding of such important concepts as justice, virtue, beauty, love and knowledge.

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Socrates

A biography of the Greek philosopher, Socrates.

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A timeline of the Life of Socrates.

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Who Was Socrates?

Considered to be the founding father of Western philosophy, Socrates examined all aspects of life in ancient Athens—to his own detriment.

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Socrates (469—399 B.C.E.)

An overview of Socrates: who he was, what he thought, and his purported method.

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