![]() ![]() "We cannot help but see Socrates as the turning-point, the vortex of world history." (Friedrich Nietzsche) ![]() He presented himself as the most ignorant of ignoramuses - he lured people into endless discussions by stubbornly asking new questions when they wanted to know something, inducing them to find the answers themselves. Surrounded by his disciples, in lively conversation, he strolled up and down the Agora, the market and central gathering place of Athens. He was condemned to death by drinking a cup of poisonous hemlock. ![]() One day he was accused of blasphemy and of corrupting the youth with his philosophical ideas. He did not leave any written texts his ideas and his teaching were brought to us via the works of his most famous disciple, Plato. Socrates lived in Athens at the time of the Athenian democracy. ![]()
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