Socrates

Socrates

Socrates of Athens was a philosopher. A philosopher studies human behavior, thought, and knowledge. The word philosophy meant "the love of wisdom" and that is what Socrates had.

When Socrates wrote to the oracle "who is the wisest man of all of Greece" The oracle answered he was. Socrates was puzzled over that so he went to search for a wiser man. He went to see politicians, poets and craft workers. He concluded that the oracles message was, if you would be wise, be like Socrates, who knows that he knows nothing.

Socrates soon had a group of young men who listened to him and learned from him how to think. Plato was one of these young men. Plato wrote dialects about what Socrates taught him, that's how we know of Socrates. Plato also opened an academy and taught Aristotle there. In 399 B.C, some