who was the greek philosopher whose dialogues stressed arête which means virtue?
Socrates (/ Ë s É k r É t iË z /; Greek: Î£ÏÎºÏÎ¬ÏÎ·Ï [sÉËkrÃ¡tÉËs], SÅkrÃ¡tÄs; c. 470 â 399 BC) was a classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and as being the first moral philosopher, of the western ethical tradition of thought.