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Socrates (470-399 BC) Socrates was born to a poor Athenian family in 470 BC He spent most of his time teaching others. One of his pupils was Plato. Socrates was a believer in absolute truth rather than relative truth. His main interest was the process by which people learned how to think for themselves. He would usually talk to whoever would take the time to listen. He asked many questions and criticized answers. His style of conversation has been given the name Socratic dialogue. Socrates would often ask students questions without giving them answers. When the students did give answers, he opposed them with clear logical arguments. This method forced his students to defend their statements and to clarify their thinking.
Socrates was the wisest philosopher of his time. He was one of three great teachers of ancient Greece. Socrates was short and fat, with a snub nose and wide mouth. Despite his ugly appearance, many said he was a very moral teacher and a pleasant man to be around. Socrates married a lady named Xanthippe.
She was notorious for her sharp tongue and quick temper. The Athenian mob and its self-serving leaders did not appreciate Socrates and his teachings. In 399 BC, they accused him of "corrupting the young" and of "not worshipping the gods worshipped by the state". These men took Socrates to trial and brought him up on charges. Socrates argued in his own defense that a person who knew what was right would always do what was right.
"A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether... he is doing right or wrong". The jury of citizens found him guilty and sentenced him to death by drinking hemlock. Socrates did not ask for a lesser penalty and was sentenced to death. He lived his life under the laws of his polis. He obeyed them his whole life and was not going to change his ways in court. Socrates drank the poisonous hemlock juice and died quietly among his grieving followers.
However, before he drank the juice, he said some parting comments of which Plato recorded. "The hour of departure has Socrates (470-399 BC) Socrates was born to a poor Athenian family in 470 BC He spent most of his time teaching others. "The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows". arrived, and we go our ways I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.".
