Socrates
Socrates
Philosophical profile and overview
- Era
- Classical Greece (5th-4th century BC)
- Philosophical Focus
- Ethics, Epistemology, Socratic method (investigative conversation), Elenchus (refutation and cross-examination), Irony, Maieutics (midwifery or the art of bringing thoughts to birth), Daimonion (personal inner voice), and Intellectualism (knowledge as a basis for moral virtue).
- About
- Socrates, born circa 469 BC in Athens, Greece, was a classical Greek philosopher credited as the founder of modern Western philosophy. He is infamously known for having been sentenced to death for corrupting the minds of Athenian youth and disrespecting the city's traditional gods. Socrates never wrote down his teachings; hence, his philosophy was orally transmitted and thus recorded through the works of contemporaries like Plato.
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