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Running Head : Principle ideas and methods of Socrates

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Table of contents .2

Introduction .3

Socrates methods and ideas , and why he was tried .3

Conclusion .5

Reference .6 Introduction

Socrates was a Greek philosopher who lived in the period between 469 BC-399 BC (Apology , 27 . He was charged in the year 399BC , for convincing youths not to believe in the God of Athens (Brun , 1978 . The allegations were forwarded by Mellitus who was also from the

same city Socrates commanded a large youth following . They liked him because he did not ask them to pay for the services he offered . His beliefs were seen as going against the common sense in the Athenian context and this made most parents to be weary of their children 's association with him

He believed that his work as a philosopher was to make other people understand that they knew less than they thought they knew . He did this by ironic questioning , which was later referred to as Socratic irony by Plato . It 's his questioning of those in authority , strict commitment to truth and his belief in eternal soul that didn 't die that made him to clash with the society and especially the political class

Socrates Methods and ideas and why he was tried

Socrates believed in the existence of an eternal soul which he argued was the main thing that human beings needed to be concerned most about its state rather than increasing their...

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