Socrates: The Father Of Western Philosophy
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Socrates is arguably the most influential philosopher of all time. His ideas not only changed the course of history, but laid the groundwork for what is today considered Western philosophy. So who was Socrates? Well, Socrates was born in 469 BC, and spent nearly all of his life in Athens, Greece. The city was then at the center of Greece’s ‘Golden Age’, a time of rapid development and democratization. He was a soldier, then a stonecutter, before devoting his life to being a philosopher, which literally means “lover of wisdom”. But little else is known about Socrates’ upbringing, or the rest of his life, because he didn’t actually write anything down. In fact, everything we know about him is through the writings of his contemporaries, most famously his student, Plato. Plato publi...
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Socrates is arguably the most influential philosopher of all time. His ideas not only changed the course of history, but laid the groundwork for what is today considered Western philosophy. So who was Socrates? Well, Socrates was born in 469 BC, and spent nearly all of his life in Athens, Greece. The city was then at the center of Greece’s ‘Golden Age’, a time of rapid development and democratization. He was a soldier, then a stonecutter, before devoting his life to being a philosopher, which literally means “lover of wisdom”. But little else is known about Socrates’ upbringing, or the rest of his life, because he didn’t actually write anything down. In fact, everything we know about him is through the writings of his contemporaries, most famously his student, Plato. Plato publi...
