Tuesday, 18 February 2014

Facts

quick facts:

  1. Socrates never wrote anything down, his students' notes on dialogs and lectures that he gave provide us with insight to his teachings
  2. Plato was a student of Socrates
  3. German philsopher Friedrich Nietzsche said, "I admire the courage and wisdom of Socrates in all he did, said - and did not say."
  4. Socrates was charged with irreverence towards the Athenian gods and was executed by being given poisonous hemlock to drink

PHOTOS

A bust of Socrates.
A statute of Socrates.

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