Socrates Forever

Socrates was born in Athens, an ordinary citizen’s home. Socrates has a plain language and ordinary persons, born flat nose, hypertrophy of the lips, protruding eyes, clumsy and short body and sacred thought. Him talk in Athens streets, people everywhere to raise some questions, for example, what is piety? What is democracy? What is virtue? What is courage? What is truth? And what is your job? What is your knowledge and skills? You are not politicians? If so, the rule about what you learned? You are not the teachers? In education before the ignorant people you are going to conquer their own ignorance? And so on. The purpose of this question, Socrates said: “My mother was a midwife, I would like to follow her footsteps, I am a spiritual midwife, helping others have their own thought.”

He inherited his father’s early years, engaged in the work of stone carving and later philosophical research. Him in Athens and then lot of wise men debate philosophical questions, mainly about ethical and political aspects of education. He was considered to be the most wise people. As a citizen, he had three to join the army fighting in the war was brave and indomitable. In addition, he also citizens of the General Assembly in Athens served as the Official Jury. In Athens, the restoration of democracy after his master, Socrates was charged with in order to flout the traditional religion, the introduction of new gods, corrupt young people and against democracy, and so was sentenced to death. He rejected the friends and students to go out to him begging for mercy and the recommendations of the run, drinking poison and died. In the history of European culture, he has been seen as the pursuit of truth for the saints to death, almost in parallel with Confucius in the history of China share the same status. Over the years he was considered to be anti-democratic, aristocratic slave owners to safeguard the interests of reactionary philosophers, someone has recently put forward a different view on this.

Young people time, Socrates had talked to his father crafts study were familiar with Homer and other famous poet’s works by self-study became a very learned person. To impart knowledge to him for their livelihood, more than 30 years of age do not make a pay check is not the setting up of social and moral teachers. Lot of a wealthy family and children from poor families often gather around him with his study, to consult him. Socrates often said: “I only know that they know nothing about.”