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The most interesting and influential thinker in the fifth century•Be regarded as the “father” of western philosophy•As an educator, his students are excellent, just as Plato •He is a great philosopher, but he never wrote a single line. All we know about him is from Plato and Xenophon

Who is he

socrates

He and his students Plato, and Plato's student Aristotle are known as the "ancient Greece's three talents", and was later widely considered to be the founder of modern Western Philosophy

Brief introduction

father: engraver( 雕工 )Mother: midwife （接生婆）Born in Pericles’ AgeRelated books : the classical book

<ideal book>

It explores the philosophy, politics, ethics, education, arts and so on all aspects of the problem, in theory as the foundation, established a system of ideal National programme

Socrates discuss with some philosophy about ideal country in the book

His father taught him PE and music, while his mother taught him something about medicine

Socrates was a stone cutter by trade, even though there is little evidence that he did much to make a living

His death

In BC399, Socrates was put to death by the court of Athens because of instigating （教唆） youth and desecrating （亵渎） the God of Athens

Socrates refused to beg for absolving( 脱罪 ) or escape to another country

At last he died from the poisonous wine

Dialogues with crito who is his student before his dying

It is said some heard the executions, always make every attempt to delay the time, to enjoy a sumptuous （华丽的） dinner,don’t you?

What you said is indeed right ,delaying time maybe can

get something in their opinion,but it is looked down for m

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Famous remark by Socrates

Other man live to eat, while I eat to live 别人为食而生，我为生而食 The unexamined life is not worth living 浑浑噩噩的日子不值得过 One thing I know, that is I know nothing 我所知道的一件事就是我一无所知