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Greek, Unemployed, Athenian Philosopher, Founder of Western Philosophy and Ethics, Executed After Trial by Jury for "Corrupting the Youth," and Favorite Fictional Character of Plato, the Grand Corrupter of Western Scholarship
: A Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy and among the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thought. An enigmatic figure, Socrates authored no texts and is known mainly through the posthumous accounts of classical writers, particularly his students Plato and Xenophon. (From: Wikipedia.org.)
Quote #5 on Education Struggle Quotes >> Science and Biology
“When I was a young man, I was wonderfully desirous of that wisdom which they call a history of nature; for it appeared to me to be a very sublime thing to know the causes of everything, why each thing is generated, why it perishes and why it exists.”
Source: "Western Atheism: A Short History," by James Thrower, Prometheus Books, Amherst, New York, 2000. Part 1: Atheism in Classical Antiquity, Chapter 2: The Socratic Period, Page 27.
"Western Atheism: A Short History," by James Thrower, Prometheus Books, Amherst, New York, 2000.
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