Socrate

The personality of Socrate is a headlight figure of world philosophy. Itmodifies the image which one has of the philosopher always leaning inhis writings because Socrate was first of all a speaker and no one knows much of his history. All that one can learn of this thinker isthe testimonys written by Xénophon, Aristote or Plato.Socrate had never written anything; his life and his thoughts have been retranscribed in works of Parménide, the Sophist, orin the Policy. Xénophon also devoted a book for Socrate named tohim memorable Entretiens with Socrate. Aristote, who was born14 years after the death of Socrate, was inspired byPlato and by Xénophon to write the history of this great thinker.Socrat was born in 470 B.C. He was a son of a sculptor and a wise woman and he would have exerted his father's trade for sometime. It is also known that it had two children with awoman who didn't love him, Xanthippe. Xénophon defined it as being anunbearable woman, a horror as if it had never happened or never would happen. Before becoming a philosopher, Socrate will have been a manwho sought to give his councils to others. In order to do this, he indulged all his souls to speak, and his stage was in “the agora”:the great place of Athens. The base made by his voice was sustained by his disciples, his pupils and it is almost impossible to be a man like him,who is from an incredible clearness and value, can pass unperceived. What Socrate sought was to awake Athens from its ignorance. For that he usedthe words that made him known as a very ironic man. The philosophyof Socrate is a teaching which pushes the man with better knowing.The Socratic “Know yourself” became today a currency for everyphilosophical where he is neophyte or marked. It dreams of asignificance which emanates from the socialsciences like psychology or sociology. “Know yourself” invites you tothe meditation because it is what to learn a thing if one hasn't experienced yet. In some kinds, Socrate insinuates that a man isnot always ignorant in front of something he does not know. He himselfsaid that a soul can expand from an idea and that it is necessary inthis case which it “is confined” of what it knows. Thus, to think is tocultivate itself and the meditation implies the culture. Explored itsown ego allows one to learn and a man can never be ignorant of everything. Parallel tothis, this “Know yourself” is a word of wisdom against theSophists. It gives to the latter, which maintained animosity towardsSocrate a very different vision on philosophy. They which believed anyknowledge are now defied by a philosopher who says that it does notknow anything, and that nothing is all that it knew. It will be noticedthat for thus philosophizing, Socrate will have needed a particularirony. And this one so yelling been worth to him many troubles. TheSocratique irony is a refusal of morals and the serious one. Throughthe latter, Socrate wants to prove with serious that it has false. Itthus pushes it to contradict and make errors so that after it explainsto him the things under very an other angle of vision. Socratcaricaturise the serious one with his irony to push it to reviseitself. However, much of people will not agree with what Socratetaught, and except the reserves which had certain sophists for theperson of Socrate, this one will be condemned to died in 399 front J.C.Socrat had in this time 70 years and the reason for its judgment isthat it was shown to corrupt youth and to introduce other gods amongthe gods of the City. In its Apologie book for Socrate, Criton andPhédon, Plato tell death thoroughly of what was the largest thinker ofGreece Antique. Socrat will have been forced to drink his poison andits voice always resounds in our modern times like a desire to finallywant to discover the Truth.