SOCRATES

BACKGROUND/BIO

• Grew up in working class.
• First job was stonecutter.
• Fought in 3 Military Campaigns
• Transition from height of Athens
• To defeat by Sparta in Pelo. War.

PHILOSOPHY

• Against Status Quo
• "Gadfly"
• Socratitc Method
• Questions
• Self-Contradiction

MODUS OPERANDI

• Hangs out in City Square
• Politicians, Judges, Lawyers
• What is Justice?
• Oracle at Delphi
• "I know that I do not know."

SOCRATIC METHOD

• Form of inquiry and discussion
• Dialectical
• Concepts Lacking Concrete Definition
• Inadequacies/Inconsistencies
• Spiritual Exercise- away from Senses

PRIORITIES

• Welfare of one's Soul
• Ethical/Moral
• Wrong doing= Ignorance
• Virtues of Philosophy
• Renaissance/Age of Reason

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