Philosophy
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Socrates
Socrates
Socrates is a famous philosopher who lived in Ancient Greece and he had set up the basics of Greek philosophy. He was born in 470BC in Athens as a son of a stonecutter and a midwife.
His life as a philosopher started after his journey to Delphoi Temple, there he begun to wonder about what is right and what is wrong. He was said that he was the cleverest man living however, only thing he knew that didn't know a single thing; on the other hand, he knew that god wouldn't lie; so he begun to question people, who thought they knew everything. First he questioned politicians than poets and finally craftsman and he realized that they weren't wise and they didn't even know that. People who were questioned by Socrates thought they knew things that they actually didn't know. However, on the other hand, Socrates did knew that he didn't know and understood that he was wiser than the others, not because of what he knew but because of what he didn't knew. And this made him understood that what was told to him in the temple was right, he was wiser than the people who accuses himself to be wise.