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GREECE TIMES
Socrates, our Greek philosopher, has profoundly affected our philosophy. Born in Athens, the son of Sophroniscus, he received the regular elementary education in literature, music, and gymnastics. He familiarized himself with the rhetoric and dialectics of the Sophists, the speculations of the lonian philosophers, and the general culture of Periclean Athens. I interviewed Socrates outside of his cell after his trial. He had just finished talking to his admirers. There he had many things to say. Q: How is your attitude toward politics? A: I obeyed the Athens Laws, but generally steered clear of politic, by what I believed to be divine warning. Q: Did you write any books about your believes? A: I wrote no books and established no regular school of philosophy. My students took down good notes. Let them write the books. Q: What did you believe in? A: My contribution to philosophy was essentially ethical in character. Belief in a purely objective understanding of such concepts as justice, love and virtue and the self-knowledge that I inculated, were the basis of my teachings. I believed that all vice is the result of ignorance, and that no person is willing bad. Q: Who is Antisthenes? A: Another thinker befriended and influenced by me was Antisthenes, the founder of Cynic school of philosophy. Q: What were you charged with? A: I was charged with neglecting the gods of the state and introducing new divinities, a reference to the daemonion, or mystical inner voice, to which I often referred.I was also charged with corrupting the morals of the young, leading them away from the princibles of democracy.
Socrates, our Greek philosopher, has profoundly affected our philosophy. Born in Athens, the son of Sophroniscus, he received the regular elementary education in literature, music, and gymnastics. He familiarized himself with the rhetoric and dialectics of the Sophists, the speculations of the lonian philosophers, and the general culture of Periclean Athens. I interviewed Socrates outside of his cell after his trial. He had just finished talking to his admirers. There he had many things to say. Q: How is your attitude toward politics? A: I obeyed the Athens Laws, but generally steered clear of politic, by what I believed to be divine warning. Q: Did you write any books about your believes? A: I wrote no books and established no regular school of philosophy. My students took down good notes. Let them write the books. Q: What did you believe in? A: My contribution to philosophy was essentially ethical in character. Belief in a purely objective understanding of such concepts as justice, love and virtue and the self-knowledge that I inculated, were the basis of my teachings. I believed that all vice is the result of ignorance, and that no person is willing bad. Q: Who is Antisthenes? A: Another thinker befriended and influenced by me was Antisthenes, the founder of Cynic school of philosophy. Q: What were you charged with? A: I was charged with neglecting the gods of the state and introducing new divinities, a reference to the daemonion, or mystical inner voice, to which I often referred.I was also charged with corrupting the morals of the young, leading them away from the princibles of democracy.