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(greek philosopher)
(‘469 BCE’ – ‘399 BCE’)
(lived to age 70)
/ˈsɒkrətiːz/
Greek: Σωκράτης [sɔːkrátɛːs]
Sōkrátēs
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[‘socrates’ was a classical greek (‘athenian’) philosopher credited as one of the founders of ‘western philosophy’]
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[teacher of ‘plato’]
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(he is an enigmatic figure known chiefly through the accounts of classical writers, especially the writings of his students ‘Plato’ and ‘Xenophon’ and the plays of his contemporary ‘Aristophanes’)
(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’, Plato”)
(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 of Socratic irony and the Socratic method, or “elenchus”)
(the latter remains a commonly used tool in a wide range of discussions, and is a type of ‘pedagogy’ in which a series of questions is asked not only to draw individual answers, but also to encourage fundamental insight into the issue at hand)
(plato’s ‘socrates’ also made important + lasting contributions to the field of ‘epistemology’, and his ideologies + approach have proven a strong foundation for much ‘western philosophy’ that has followed)
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(the trial of socrates (‘399 BC’) was held to determine the philosopher’s guilt of 2 charges…)
asebeia (or ‘impiety’) against the pantheon of ‘athens
and corruption of the youth of the city-state; the accusers cited two impious acts by Socrates: “failing to acknowledge the gods that the city acknowledges” and “introducing new deities”)
(the ‘death sentence’ of ‘socrates’ was the ‘legal consequence’ of asking politico-philosophic questions of his students, from which resulted the two accusations of moral corruption and of ‘impiety’)
(at ‘trial’, the majority of the dikasts (male-citizen jurors chosen by lot) voted to convict him of the 2 charges; then, consistent with common legal practice, voted to determine his punishment, and agreed to a sentence of death to be executed by socrates’s drinking a poisonous beverage of ‘hemlock’)
(‘primary-source accounts’ of the trial and execution of Socrates are the Apology of Socrates by Plato and the Apology of Socrates to the Jury by Xenophon of Athens, who had been his student; contemporary interpretations include The Trial of Socrates (1988) by the journalist I. F. Stone,
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why socrates died: Dispelling the Myths
(2009) by the classics scholar ‘robin waterfield’)
“thanks robin!”
(and now for our…)
”“what do you mean he —?”““what do you mean he —?”
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