Socrates (470-399 BC) Socrates was born to a poor Athenian family in 470 BC He spent most of his time teaching others. One of his pupils was Plato. Socrates was a believer in absolute truth rather than relative truth. His main interest was the process by which people learned how to think for themselves. He would usually talk to whoever would take the time to listen. He asked many questions and criticized answers. His style of …showed first 75 words of 385 total…

…showed last 75 words of 385 total…life under the laws of his polis. He obeyed them his whole life and was not going to change his ways in court. Socrates drank the poisonous hemlock juice and died quietly among his grieving followers. However, before he drank the juice, he said some parting comments of which Plato recorded. “The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.”