Socrates

Socrates (469–399 B.C.)

Socrates was considered as one of the most advanced thinkers ever brought on to the planet. He lived for 469 to 399 BC in Athens,Greece. The main thing Socrates did was try to get people to think themselfs and not be controlled.

Socrates, in his time had his own school at which he taught his students his ethics. The ethics that Socrates were very well thought of and only someone as wise as him could think of such thoughts.His ethics or method which was called the "method of elenchus", in which goodness and justice was broken down and processed.

Here is some of what Socrates believed in: first he taught heroic value "In the //Apology//, Socrates says that a man worth anything at all does not reckon whether his course of action endangers his life or threatens death." (Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy) One of these ethics is: The best way to live life is to have knowledge, And another : knowledge comes before private life. Also this is something of his: All we know is what other people know and feel.

his way he viewed ethics in order:

|| || character // || // Aristippus Epicurus // || // Diogenes // || // Zeno of Citium Epictetus Marcus Aurelius // || of Socrates || emotional independence; self-knowledge || Socrates believed there were two different types of knowledge. The first type is plain knowledge, the person who has this knowledge doesnt deserve talking about it because its worth nothing. The second type is definitional knowledge, the pursuit to define things in life and find answers.
 * //__** Socratic Ethics **__// ||
 * ** Platonism ** || ** Hedonism ** || ** Cynicism ** || ** Stoicism ** ||
 * // teleological
 * "the good" || happiness || the example

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websites [] http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/socrates/ []

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