Before Socrates came to Athens philosophy was merely a type of argument; philosophers were more interested in how the world works; Socrates however, was more interested in how people should behave, therefore becoming the first philosopher of ethics. Ethics, also known as moral philosophy is the study of how people should act, what they think is right, and what leads them to the greater good. Socrates spent all of his time walking the streets talking people into seeing the greater good in themselves and how they can fully achieve just that. Epistemology is the theory of knowledge and the study of what knowledge is relating to truth, belief, and justification. In Plato's dialogue, Theaetetus Socrates states the thesis of what is knowledge, "Knowledge is perception
knowledge is true judgement and knowledge is true judgement plus account." His definition resembles what is favored by an epistemologist. Therefore, inspiring the idea of the study of epistemology. Socrates also inspired the field of logic: the attempt to distinguish good
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Both of Socrates followers, Plato and Aristotle based their studies on logic. Socrates was a sophist who is someone who argues for the sake of deception; his pupils liked this study as a way to get a point across inspired by Socrates success with this method. He also did more than just inspiring the way the two studied, he also inspired multiple schools and philosophical movements.Socrates t heses on virtue being knowledge, the act of evil is involuntary, only good opinions come from the wise and bad ones come from the ignorant, and that our desires are only the lack of something, the more you have the worse condition you are in are all instrumental in the development of many philosophical movements. For example, one of his students' principles, Platonism. Platonism is an ancient Greek school of philosophy, created by Plato (Socrates student and follower) based in the