Socrates (jan 1, 470 BC – jan 1, 399 BC)
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Socrates has become renowned for his contributions to the fields of rationalism, ethics and epistemology.The Socratic method is a form of dialogue using short questions and answers, epitomised by those Platonic texts in which Socrates and his interlocutors examine various aspects of an issue or an abstract meaning, usually relating to one of the virtues, and find themselves completely unable to define what they thought they understood.
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jan 1, 470 BC
jan 1, 399 BC
~ 71 years