Any Information on Socrates... more details....?

okay so i have a group project and i need to know certine things about socrates so these are the things i need to know and thank you for your help.. do as much as you can if you do not know somew it is okay and please answer the questions in bulleted form thank you :)








~ people in socrates life, his interest in learning, ideas he spread, how he influenced thinking today, his backroung education





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Socrates was famous for asking "What is it?" questions, such as what is virtue? What is justice? When people came up with the standard answers of the time, he picked their reasoning apart. For example, when he asked one young Greek what justice was and the answer that it was whatever the strongest could pull off, he put that answer to shame. It was said he was the wisest of the Greeks because he knew that he did not know; in other words, when a lot of people assumed they had all the answers, Socrates could demonstrate to them that they didn't. The Socratic method of questioning and answering via dialogue came to be known as one of the major forms of debate for our time.





His student, Plato, also became a great philosopher in his own right, and taught Aristotle, carrying on the tradition of Greek thinking. Socrates never wrote anything down; he was against the written record, so the only record we have of Socrates is what Plato wrote.





Socrates was accused of impiety, disrespecting the Gods, and corrupting the youth of Athens, and for that, was sentenced to death by a group of dictators whom he had offended. To prove that he respected the law of Athens and was innocent of the charges of insurrection, he obeyed the sentence of death and drank a poison called hemlock, which slowly killed him. His last words were asking one of his disciples to pay a cock (chicken) to the God Aesculapius as it was the custom to pay this offering for one dying, and to prove he didn't disrespect the Gods.





Socrates was a patriot, having fought in the wars against the Persians. He was a stone cutter by trade, and was said to be particularly ugly, having the face of a rather homely fish, but he had a beautiful mind.