Socrates creates a turning point in history since pre-socratic philosophers before him were much more interested in establishing how the world works while Socrates was more concerned with how people should behave, and was called the first major philosopher of Ethics. Another turning point was that he wrote nothing because he felt that knowledge was a living, interactive thing. Socrates' method of philosophical inquiry consisted in questioning people on the positions they asserted and working them through questions into a contradiction, thus proving to them that their original assertion was wrong. Other philosopher’s before him tried to write their beliefs. Socrates follows in the footsteps of the early Sophists in making ethics his primary