Influences Of Socratic Philoso
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In today's modern world, much of our own culture's beliefs and
morals are directly due to the impact of Socratic philosophy on
European thinkers, and therefore our own in the western world. This
philosophy, was based upon the thoughts of Socrates, who was an
Athenian philosopher and possibly the mo ....
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.... The sophists were a group
of itinerant teachers and philosophers from the Greek hellas who
flocked to Athens, where they made a living by teaching the citizens
of Athens for money. Socrates himself had long been accused of
being a sophist (a designation he bitterly resented), as his thoughts
were very similar to those of a sophist.
During the age of the sophists, Socrates (470-399 B.C.) became
known as one to talk with the people he met in the marketplaces and
city squares of Athen ....
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