照片作者 Eric Gaba（Wikimedia Commons 用户 Sting，2005 年 7 月拍摄）；胸像原作者相传为吕西波斯（Lysippos，存疑） · Public domain
c. 470–399 BC (birth year uncertain)
Socrates / Σωκράτης
Socrates · 希腊
Ancient Greek philosopher, founder of Western ethics (c. 470–399 BC).
Born in Athens, he wrote nothing in his lifetime, and his thought is known through the dialogues of his pupils Plato and Xenophon; by the method of questioning he probed definitions of "what courage, justice, piety are", holding that "the unexamined life is not worth living"; in 399 BC he was charged in Athens with impiety and corrupting the young, sentenced to death, and died by drinking poison (the poison was very likely hemlock; the original wording is "probably hemlock", and the uncertain point is retained).
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Birthplace, place of activity, and place of death Athens.
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Cultural significance
The "Socratic method" remains a questioning paradigm in legal and philosophical education to this day; his trial and death have become the classic motif of the conflict between conscience and the law of the city-state.
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