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Socrates Life and Thoughts Socrates (469-399BC) A Greek philosopher from Athens, who was the teacher of Plato and whose ideas are known from Plato’s writings. He is known for encouraging people to think carefully about ideas before accepting them and for developing the method of examining ideas according to system of questions and answers in order to find out the truth. This is known as the Socratic method or dialectic. The Greek authorities disapproved of his ideas and methods, and said he was a bad influence on young people. They forced him to kill himself by drinking hemlock, a powerful poison. Sayings concerning or from Socrates The wisdom of a Socrates.? 苏格拉底式的智慧 Socrates laid the foundations of logic.? 苏格拉底奠定了逻辑学的基础。 The soul also acquired an independent and immortal existence in Socrates;? 在苏格拉底的心目中，灵魂也有一种独立和不朽的存在 The unexamined life is not worth living.-- Socrates? 混混噩噩的生活不值得过。－－苏格拉底 Other man live to eat, while I eat to live.( Socrates)? 别人为食而生存，我为生存而食。（苏格拉底）　 One thing I know, that is I know nothing. (Socrates Greek)? 我所知道的一件事就是我一无所知。（苏格拉底古希腊） Plato : ancient Athenian philosopher (428-347 BC); pupil of Socrates; teacher of Aristotle.? 柏拉图:古雅典哲学家（公元前428-347年）；苏格拉底的学生；亚里斯多德的老师。 He refuses to escape from death sentence. Socratess argument proceeds from the statement of a perfectly general moral principle to its application in his particular case: One ought never to do wrong (even in response to the evil committed by another). But it is always wrong to disobey the state. Hence, one ought never to disobey the state. And since avoiding the sentence of death handed down by the Athenian jury would be an action in disobedience the state, it follows Socrates ought not to escape. The Death of Socrates Platos dramatic picture of a man willing to face death rather than abandoning his commitment to philosophical inquiry offers up Socrates as a mo