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He taught Us All to Think.
Posted Date:
04 Dec 2007
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Posted By: Jose Mathew Member Level: Platinum Points: 4
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He was a funny-looking man with a high, bald dome shaped head, a face very small in comparison, a round upturned nose and a long wavy beard that didn’t seem to belong to such a perky face.
His ugliness was a standing joke among his friends and he helped them to enjoy the joke. He was a poor man and something of an idler-a stonecutter by trade, a sort of semi-skilled sculptor. But he didn’t work any more than was necessary to keep his wife and three boys alive.
He preferred to talk. And since his wife was a complaining woman who used her tongue as an irate wagon driver uses a horse-whip, he loved above all things to be away from home.
He would get up before dawn, eat a hasty breakfast of bread dipped in wine, slip on a tunic and throw a coarse mantle over it, and be off in search of a shop, or a friend’s house or the public baths, or perhaps just a familiar street corner, where he could get into an argument. The whole city he lived in was seething with argumentation.
The city was Athens, and the man we are talking about was Socrates
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| Author: vijay 04 Dec 2007 | Member Level: Gold | Rating:  Points: 5 | Socrates is renowned for developing the practice of a philosophical type of pedagogy, in which the teacher asks questions of the student in order to elicit the best answer, and fundamental insight, on the part of the student.
Socrates is credited with exerting a powerful influence upon the founders of Western philosophy, most particularly Plato and Aristotle, and while Socrates' principal contribution to philosophy is in the field of ethics, he also made important and lasting contributions to the fields of epistemology and logic.
| | Author: Saranya 19 May 2008 | Member Level: Gold | Rating: Points: 2 | Oh.
Thats nice Jose.
The most interesting and influential thinker in the fifth century was Socrates, whose dedication to careful reasoning transformed the entire enterprise. Since he sought genuine knowledge rather than mere victory over an opponent, Socrates employed the same logical tricks developed by the Sophists to a new purpose, the pursuit of truth. Thus, his willingness to call everything into question and his determination to accept nothing less than an adequate account of the nature of things make him the first clear exponent of critical philosophy.
Although he was well known during his own time for his conversational skills and public teaching, Socrates wrote nothing, so we are dependent upon his students (especially Xenophon and Plato) for any detailed knowledge of his methods and results. The trouble is that Plato was himself a philosopher who often injected his own theories into the dialogues he presented to the world as discussions between Socrates and other famous figures of the day. Nevertheless, it is usually assumed that at least the early dialogues of Plato provide a (fairly) accurate representation of Socrates himself.
Regards,
Saranya...
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