Socrates. who lived from 470-339 BC, was the Greek thinker from Athens. is credited as the founder of Western philosophy, and one of the greatest minds of all times.
Socrates's views on death made him go down in history for his cheerfully taking poison for his radical ideas. As the first moral philosopher of the Western ethical tradition of thought, it is worthwhile to take a look at what made Socrates view death with such insouciance and courage to the end of his remarkable life.
Socrates is the most exponent of Western philosophy, with his ideas forming a continuum from Ancient Greece to today's Western thought.
It has been said of the man that he "brought philosophy down to earth from the stars." because thanks to his personality, philosophy ceased to deal with natural phenomena and began to deal with man and society.
An enigmatic figure, Socrates is known mainly through posthumous accounts of classical writers, particularly his students Plato and Xenophon.
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