Socrates

Socrates (vers 470 – vers 399 av J-C)
Greek teacher and philosopher.

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Socrates was one of the most famous men of antiquity. His teaching came to us through his disciples, Plato. He is the founding father of moral philosophy.

Socrates teaches us that knowledge is the most enviable good. He believes that if man knows the difference between good and evil, he will always do good. According to him, those who do evil only do so because they do not know what is good and what is evil.

Socrates bothers a lot of people in Athens. He questions about work, power, democracy, good morality. We often saw Socrates wandering through the streets of Athens to question his fellow citizens, his beard badly cut and his bare feet.

Teaching method :

His teaching method always remained famous, he asked his students questions about what they believed without ever really thinking about it. By closely studying their old beliefs, students began to doubt. Then Socrates, by guiding them, helped them to discover for themselves what was right and what was wrong.

Sentenced to death

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Unjustly condemned to death for "corrupting youth", Socrates refused to associate himself with a plot that would allow him to escape. In front of his assembled friends, he drank a hemlock cut and died peacefully.

Imagine the powerful of today subjected, before witnesses, to Socrates' questions! What's happening to him?

The quotes from Socrates:

"The people you ask, if you ask them right, find the right answers for themselves."

"Never forget that everything is ephemeral, so you'll never be too happy in happiness or too sad in sorrow."

"It is better to suffer injustice than to commit it"

"You can hide wrongdoing from others, but never from yourself"

"Our young people love luxury, have bad manners, mock authority and have no respect for age. In our time, children are tyrants."

"Man is the only animal that believes in gods"

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