Great philosophers - Socrates (469-399 B.C.)

Socrates:
Socrates (469-399 B.C.) was a classical Greek philosopher who laid the fundamentals of Western philosophy.  He has a profound influence on Western philosophy, along with his students Plato and Aristole. He believed that philosophy should achieve practical results for the greater well-being of society. He established an ethical system based on human reason rather than theological doctrine. Socrates said human choice was motivated by the desire for happiness. Socrates put emphasis on knowledge all his life because he believed that
 “The ability to distinguish between right and wrong lies in people's reason not in society.”

Socrates was convicted of corrupting the youth of Athens and introducing strange gods, and was sentenced to die by drinking poison hemlock. Socrates uses his death as a final lesson for his pupils rather than fleeing and faces it calmly.

 At the trial, Socrates says the following advices.

*“The only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know nothing.” 

*"The unexamined life is not worth living".

* "When the debate is over, slander becomes the tool of the loser."

* "Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."

*"Beware the barrenness of a busy life."

*"To find yourself, think for yourself."

* "By all means marry: if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher."

* "I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."

* "There is only one good -  Knowledge 
and one evil - Ignorance."

Socrates believed that the wise person would instinctively lead a frugal life. He himself would not even wear shoes; yet he constantly fell under the spell of the market place and would go there often to look at all the wares on display. When  one of  his friends asked  why, Socrates said,
 "I  love to go there and discover how many  things I am perfectly happy without."
- ✍️Dr Prema Pangi
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