Socrates Beliefs

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us." Socrates said. Socrates was one of the worlds biggest influence on ethics and ways of thinking. He taught all his students to question everything and to never settle for one answer. He was a Greek philosopher in the city of Athens who mainly focused on ethics, western philosophy and his own methods, like the Socrates method and Socratic irony. He later influenced many philosophers like Plato, Aristotle and Aristippus. Socrates was a classical writer who's methods and views and ethics are highly debated and talked about in schools today. When Socrates was a teacher, he encouraged his students to question everything.

I chose this speech, to show that Socrates had a remarkable way of thinking. He thought like no one had before. He had huge impacts on Plato and Aristotle as well. They studied Socrates and built most of their ideas off him. He is considered the beginning of philosophy, he discovered a new way of being. He taught us not to live based on wealth, but based off our own happiness. That not everything is about money, and that friendships are very important. He's relevant today, because he teaches everyone to think for themselves, and to discover better and higher things. By reading some of his articles and reading some of both Plato's and Aristotle's passages, Socrates really made me think of being my own person, and to not be afraid to question everything I am and all that I stand for but in a good way. To make sure I'm living my life, examining every single part of the world, and to live and do things because I want too. Don't get lost in the shuffle, but to be your own person, no matter what anyone else thinks. That's what Socrates did, he was his won persons and got heavily judged for it. But he stuck to what he believed in and that was what made him