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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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| Seen here, the death of this Athenian philosopher was immortalized by Jacques-Louis David in 1787 |
| Books about him were written by Plato & Xenophon, both students of his |
| He was quoted by Plato as saying, "No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death" |
| He said, "Bad men live to eat & drink whereas good men eat & drink in order to live" |
| Born c. 470 B.C.; taught a bit, tried & died c. 399 B.C.; met Bill & Ted in 1989 |
| Born in Athens in 469 B.C., thought up his method, drank down his hemlock |
| Aristotle Onassis' middle name; it was also the name of a Greek philosopher |
| "The unexamined life is not worth living", said this Greek who took his own life |
| World Book says this barefoot Greek was "the first philosopher to make a clear distinction between body and soul" |
| Plato's "Phaedo" describes this philosopher's execution by hemlock |
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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 |