Dec 21, 2009
One of the most influential figures in Western philosophy, Socrates is also the most perplexing. He is not known to have written anything, so his thoughts are known only from the works of his younger associates, Plato and Xenophon. He claimed to know only that he did not know, yet antagonized influential Athenians with reproaches that seemed to presume moral knowledge. He was tried and executed by the Athenian Democracy, which he...
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