Socrates (1 gen 470 anni a. C. – 1 gen 399 anni a. C.)

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Socrates is one of the most famous Greek philosophers in history, and his thirst for knowledge changed the course of philosophy forever. He served in the Peloponnesian War. Socrates believed that knowledge was the ultimate good and that pursuing knowledge was vital to living a good, virtuous life. Socrates argued that good and evil were absolute and that only through pursuing knowledge can we learn the difference. To Socrates, ignorance was the ultimate evil.

Socrates developed the Socratic Method, which involved taking someone’s basic idea and asking a series of questions to expose any contradictions or flaws. Socrates hoped to examine everyday concepts that people took for granted so that he could gain valuable insights.

This inductive examination didn’t always go down well, and Socrates was accused of corrupting the youth of Athens. During his trial, Socrates accepted the guilty charge rather than embracing ignorance. He declared that “the life which is unexamined is not worth living” before drinking hemlock poison.

Socrates’s ideas endured because his pupil, Plato, made Socrates the central character of his dialogues. Through these writings, the Socratic Method survived to become the core tenet of scientific reasoning for centuries.

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