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noun - ancient Athenian philosopher
SOCRATES - Socrates (; Ancient Greek: , translit. Skráts, [skráts]; c.470 399 BC) was a classical Greek (Athenian) philosopher credited as one of the founder...
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| He said, "The unexamined life is not worth living", so let's examine it--he wed Xanthippe & was an Athenian Hoplite soldier |
| In 399 B.C. he told a jury, "I am not grieved, men of Athens, at this vote of condemnation" |
| Plato was one of the first authors to depict a celebrity trial--this Greek's trial, in the "Apology" |
| Impiety toward the gods & corrupting the young were on this philosopher's final rap sheet |
| Though we have no writings of his, this Greek who died in 399 B.C. invented a little thing called moral philosophy |
| This man quoted by Plato:"The unexamined life is not worth living" |
| In 399 B.C. this philosopher was convicted by a jury vote of 280-221 of corrupting the youth |
| Aristophanes' "The Clouds" satirizes this philosopher as the representative of Atheism |
| An oracle said no one was wiser than this ancient Greek, who said, if so it's because I know how little I know |
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Socrates (; Ancient Greek: , translit. Skráts, [skráts]; c.470 399 BC) was a classical Greek (Athenian) philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and as being the first moral philosopher, of the Western ethical tradition of thought. * An enigmatic figure, he made no writings, and is known chiefly through the accounts of classical writers writing after his lifetime, particularly his students Plato and Xenophon. Other sources include the contemporaneous Antisthenes, Aristippus, and Aeschines of Sphettos. Aristophanes, a playwright, is the only source to have written during his lifetime.Plato's dialogues are among the most comprehensive accounts of Socrates to survive from antiquity, though it is unclear the degree to which Socrates himself is "hidden behind his 'best disciple'". Through his portrayal in Plato's dialogues, Socrates has become renowned for his contribution to the field of ethics, and it is this Platonic Socrates who lends his name to the concepts o |