Socrates Socrates was born in 470 BCE and was the son of Sophronicus and Phaenarete. In his youth he studied music, gymnastics and grammar then took after his father’s profession as a sculptor. He was also a very great artist whereby he decorated a statue of Graces on the Acropolis road and was admired by many people into the 2nd century. Socrates played a major role in the development of philosophy (Irwin, 2008). Socrates was a man from ancient Greek and was highly considered to be the Father of Philosophy. In the field of philosophy, he was the tutor of Plato, who taught Aristotle the teacher of Alexander the Great. It was through Socrates that the Greek philosophy came to be well known throughout the world during the reign of Alexander the Great (Irwin, 2008). It was through his deeds concerning philosophy that he was classified as a classical Greek philosopher given attribute as one of the founders of the Western philosophy. “And many of the same motives that sharpened rhetoric …show more content…
He spread the news about the same to the people of Athens. He convinced them to be concerned about their daily activities including careers, families and political responsibilities but they should be concerned about their souls (Irwin, 2008). Unlike the sophists, he believed that people won’t obtain what they want rather God would provide what was needed in the right time according to him moral excellence was more a matter of divine bequest. Socrates claimed not to be wise but a lover of wisdom he also claimed that he knew only one thing which was nothing. In spite of him teaching many which included Plato and Aristotle, he saw himself not as a teacher, or a theorist but as an analogous to a midwife who could bring the theories of others to life, though to do so he needed to be experienced and possess knowledge (Irwin,