Monday 16 April 2012

SOCRATES

Socrates, one of the educated person in 469BC - 399BC. He was known as classical Greek Athenian philosopher. At the same time, he was credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy. Socrates is a classical writers especially the writings of his students, Plato and Xenophon. Many claim that Plato's dialogue are the most comprehensive accounts of Socrates to survive from antiquity.

On the other hand, Socrates has become renowned for his contribution to the field of ethics and also lend his name to the concept of Socratic irony and Socratic method. The latter remains a used tool in a wide range of discussions in which not to only draw individual answers, but also encourage fundamental insight into the issue at hand.

This Socratic method is largely applied to the examination of key moral concepts such as good and justice. In this method, the main issue is to solve a problem, it would be broken down into series of questions, the answers to which gradually distill the answers gradually distill the answer the answer a person would seek.

Socrates is a well known philosopher as during his time and his method still using in our daily life especially for the students to solve a problem or to criticize something. Without this method, it is difficult for us to solve a problem. That is why Socrates create this method so that it is easy for us to solve the problem.

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