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Socrates was an influential ancient Greek philosopher born around 470 BC in Athens. He served as a soldier in the Peloponnesian War and participated in Athenian democracy. Socrates is most famous for his use of questioning to expose flaws in people's reasoning, known as the Socratic method. He claimed to know nothing and believed the unexamined life was not worth living. Socrates was a teacher to Plato and is considered one of the founders of Western philosophy.

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Socrates was an influential ancient Greek philosopher born around 470 BC in Athens. He served as a soldier in the Peloponnesian War and participated in Athenian democracy. Socrates is most famous for his use of questioning to expose flaws in people's reasoning, known as the Socratic method. He claimed to know nothing and believed the unexamined life was not worth living. Socrates was a teacher to Plato and is considered one of the founders of Western philosophy.

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Socrates

The Greek philosopher Socrates was born c. 470/469 B.C., in Athens, and died in
399 B.C. To put this in the context of the other great men of his time, the sculptor
Pheidias died c. 430; Sophocles and Euripides died c. 406; Pericles died in 429;
Thucydides died c. 399; and the architect Ictinus completed the Parthenon in c.
438.Socrates is remembered chiefly as a philosopher and the teacher of Plato, but
he was also a citizen of Athens, and served the military as a hoplite during the
Peloponnesian War, at Potidaea (432–429), where he saved Alcibiades' life in a
skirmish, Delium (424), where he remained calm while most around him were in a
panic, and Amphipolis (422). Socrates also participated in the Athenian
democratic political organ, the Council of the 500.Socrates is known for the
Socratic method (elenchus), Socratic irony, and the pursuit of knowledge. Socrates
is famous for saying that he knows nothing and that the unexamined life is not
worth living. The Socratic method involves asking a series of questions until a
contradiction emerges invalidating the initial assumption. Socratic irony is the
position that the inquisitor takes that he knows nothing while leading the
questioning.

DISCOVERED
He is best known for his association with the Socratic method of question and
answer, his claim that he was ignorant (or aware of his own absence of
knowledge), and his claim that the unexamined life is not worth living, for human
beings.

CONTRIBUTION
*One of the founders of Western Philosophy
*Ancient Greek

NAME:AVILA ROGER / SECTION:TVL 11-HOBBES / SUBJECT: / PHYSICAL SCIENCE

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