Socrates | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-08

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00:01:23 1 Socratic problem
00:02:59 1.1 Socrates as a figure
00:04:45 1.2 Socrates as a philosopher
00:06:25 2 Biography
00:06:34 2.1 Sources
00:08:13 2.2 Early life
00:09:54 2.3 Military service
00:11:04 2.4 Epistates at the trial of the six commanders
00:12:26 2.5 Arrest of Leon
00:13:03 2.6 Trial and death
00:13:12 2.6.1 Causes of the trial
00:16:17 2.6.2 Trial
00:16:45 2.6.3 Death of Socrates
00:17:50 2.6.3.1 Last words
00:18:30 2.6.3.2 Refusal to escape
00:19:52 3 Philosophy
00:20:01 3.1 Socratic method
00:22:07 3.2 Philosophical beliefs
00:25:37 3.3 Socratic paradoxes
00:26:29 3.4 Knowledge
00:29:23 3.5 Virtue
00:30:29 3.6 Politics
00:34:09 3.7 Covertness
00:37:35 4 Satirical playwrights
00:38:30 5 Prose sources
00:39:11 5.1 The Socratic dialogues
00:41:35 6 Legacy
00:41:44 6.1 Immediate influence
00:43:49 6.2 Later historical influence
00:45:41 6.3 Criticism
00:47:55 6.4 In literature
00:48:24 7 See also



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"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."
- Socrates


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Socrates (; Ancient Greek: Σωκρᾰ́της, translit. Sōkrátēs, [sɔːkrátɛːs]; 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 fields of ethics and epistemology. It is this Platonic Socrates who lends his name to the concepts of Socratic irony and the Socratic method, or elenchus.

Socrates exerted a strong influence on philosophers in later antiquity and in the modern era. Depictions of Socrates in art, literature and popular culture have made him one of the most widely known figures in the Western philosophical tradition.