Socrates #16

We don't have much documentation from Socrates' life as he was known for not writing any text during his lifetime as a philosopher, so the only depictions that stand the test of time are from his close friends and students who wrote about him. Socrates spent much of his life trying to derive the most ethical values to live by, and the accounts we have state that he insistently drilled others on the values they stood for to the point of delirium. It was his mission to ask questions and use thought experiments to find the critical mass point that someone would go back on the values one claimed to stand for. When the nation of Athens had a political uprising around 399 BC, Socrates was outspoke...View all