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The most interesting and influential thinker in the fifth century Be regarded as the “father” of western philosophy As an educator, his students are excellent, just as Plato He is a great philosopher, but he never wrote a single line. All we know about him is from Plato and Xenophon

 Who is he socrates

He and his students Plato, and Plato's student Aristotle are known as the "ancient Greece's three talents", and was later widely considered to be the founder of modern Western Philosophy

Brief introduction  father: engraver( 雕工 )  Mother: midwife （接生婆）  Born in Pericles’ Age  Related books : the classical book

 It explores the philosophy, politics, ethics, education, arts and so on all aspects of the problem, in theory as the foundation, established a system of ideal National programme Socrates discuss with some philosophy about ideal country in the book

 His father taught him PE and music, while his mother taught him something about medicine  Socrates was a stone cutter by trade, even though there is little evidence that he did much to make a living

His death  In BC399, Socrates was put to death by the court of Athens because of instigating （教唆） youth and desecrating （亵渎） the God of Athens  Socrates refused to beg for absolving( 脱罪 ) or escape to another country  At last he died from the poisonous wine

Dialogues with crito who is his student before his dying  It is said some heard the executions, always make every attempt to delay the time, to enjoy a sumptuous （华丽的） dinner,don’t you? What you said is indeed right,delaying time maybe can get something in their opinion,but it is looked down for me

Famous remark by Socrates  Other man live to eat, while I eat to live  别人为食而生，我为生而食  The unexamined life is not worth living  浑浑噩噩的日子不值得过  One thing I know, that is I know nothing  我所知道的一件事就是我一无所知